A diaristic exploration of procrastination, pregnancy, and art The day before Cyrus Console and his pregnant wife leave for a monthlong visit to Romania, they receive troubling news—the fetus she’s carrying is at elevated risk for Down syndrome. As the trip unfolds, his worry spirals into broader meditations on parenthood, language, addiction, love, marriage, and the passage and management of time. In and among the cities of Roman, Iasi, and Bucharest, Console chronicles his loving but comically awkward interactions with friends and family, taking place as they do in a language and culture unfamiliar to him. The resulting travel diary moves beyond daily life to delve into the enigmas of art, suffering, creativity, and family. Mixing memory with acute observations on everything from chess and stray dogs to heartbreak and dreamscape, Romanian Notebook turns the anxiety and rumination of the expectant parent into a deeper way of thinking about the human condition.

The Ultimate Romanian Notebook is a structured vocabulary notebook for Romanian learners. The notebook has 160 pages including 65 different topics. The left pages have word and phrase lists which teach you in total more than 3000+ unique words and 600+ phrases. The right pages of every chapter are empty so you can add there vocabulary and notes that are relevant to you about the specific topic. In addition there are several empty spreads in the end of the notebook. So after filling all the 80 empty pages you could reach up to 5000-6000 words. The grammar section has mostly charts about the most important grammatical points and a collection of the most common verbs, adjectives, adverbs, linking words and sentence starters for instance. So with the Ultimate Romanian Notebook you would have all the most important vocabulary and grammar inside one notebook. Use this notebook as the center of your Romanian studies and use it together with other learning resources like applications, text books, Romanian classes or whatever you like and always add the words and phrases that you have learned in this notebook. The notebook is also suitable for Romanian speakers who want to learn English, because all the content is both in Romanian and English.

A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship. Winner of the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize A Censor’s Notebook is a window into the intimate workings of censorship under communism, steeped in mystery and secrets and lies, confirming the power of literature to capture personal and political truths. The novel begins with a seemingly non-fiction frame story—an exchange of letters between the author and Emilia Codrescu, the female chief of the Secret Documents Office in Romania’s feared State Directorate of Media and Printing, the government branch responsible for censorship. Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of the censors’ notebooks and the state secrets in them, but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one of these notebooks. Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to Liliana, the character of the author, for the newly instituted Museum of Communism. The work of a censor—a job about which it is forbidden to talk—is revealed in this notebook, which discloses the structures of this mysterious institution and describes how these professional readers and ideological error hunters are burdened with hundreds of manuscripts, strict deadlines, and threatening penalties. The censors lose their identity, and are often frazzled by neuroses and other illnesses.

Eva, a young native of Romania, comes to Canada in hopes to find a better job and future. When she realizes that her dream was just a fraud, with no desire and no money to return back home, she gets a job as a bar straddling, cocktails slinging, body thrusting waitress at a local Gentlemen Lounge. Eva owns nothing but a working brain and she is not afraid to display it along with her beauty to make ends meet and help the family she left behind in Eastern Europe. Her diary reveals shattered dreams, lives and love stories, humiliating moments and empowering life lessons. This is not a "sexy "confession, it is the raw reality of most Romanian girls who were brought to Canada by delusional "exotic" visas to work for "Sapphire Lounge", the Gentlemen's Lounge where life is no shiny jewel..."Made in Romania " is a book which shouldn't be judged by the cover.Ava Escu,2008.All rights reserved.([email protected])

A letter from Nigeria, leads to the uncovering of a trafficking route directing Karen Harris, commander of Unit T, into the very core of the trafficker groups. Except the traffickers are fighting back. Her soldiers' families are no longer safe, as the fight becomes more and more deadly, requiring Karen to go covert in an effort to find who is behind it.

This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during Romania’s Communist regime. The lectures deal with a diverse range of topics, such as the function of the question, self-deception, banalities with a metaphysical dimension, and how the world we live in has been shaped by the intellect. Among the thinkers discussed in these lectures are Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. Alexandru Dragomir was a Romanian philosopher born in 1916. After studying law and philosophy at the University of Bucharest (1933–1939), he left Romania to study for a doctorate in philosophy in Freiburg, Germany, under Martin Heidegger. He stayed in Freiburg for two years (1941–1943), but before defending his dissertation he was called back to Romania for military service and sent to the front. After 1948, historical circumstances forced him to become a clandestine philosopher: he was known only within a very limited circle. He died in 2002 without ever publishing anything. It was only after his death that Dragomir's notebooks came to light. His work has been published posthumously in five volumes by Humanitas, Bucharest; the present volume is the first to appear in English translation. In 2009, the Alexandru Dragomir Institute for Philosophy was founded in Bucharest as an independent research institute under the auspices of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology.