GABRIELA ADAMESTEANU in dialogue with Dennis Deletant at Georgetown University
Following her participation in PEN World Voices, Gabriela Adamesteanu will join Dennis Deletant in a conversation about her acclaimed novel WASTED MORNING, to take place May 7 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. "Wasted Morning" was recently published by Northwestern University Press, with an English translation by Patrick Camiller.
Upon its original publication in 1983, "Wasted Morning" catapulted Gabriela Adamesteanu to the first rank of Romanian novelists, translated in many languages. At the center of the story is Vica Delca, a simple, poor woman in her seventies who has endured the endless series of trials and tribulations that was Romanian history from World War I to the end of the twentieth century. Rich or poor, honest (more or less) or deceitful, all of the characters in this polyphonic novel are brought vividly to life. From Bucharest's aspirations to be the Paris of Eastern Europe to the darkest days of dictatorship, the novel presents a sweeping vision of the personal and collective costs of a turbulent century. Presented in collaboration with the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University and the Embassy of Romanian to the U.S. FREE ADMISSION.
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