Publication

2017 - Dalkey Archive Press

Language

English

Word Count

43,500 words, Guess

Page Count

174 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781628971484
  • Open LibraryOL35515820M

Classifications

  • LCCPC840.422.U548S56
  • LCCPC840.422.U548 S56 2017

Description

"Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada, telephones urging her not to vote for the former communists in upcoming elections. Determined to discover in her own mind why 'things were better back then,' she explores her memories of growing up in an impoverished village and of her life as a factory worker in the town. But ironic tension grows as the reader glimpses between the lines how nothing was what it seemed in Ceaușescu's Romania. Interspersed among Emilia's memories are fantastical, hilarious anecdotes about the dictator, told by a factory foreman who will turn out to have been a secret police informer. I'm a Communist Old Biddy! is a subtle and humane novel about self-deception, but also about the ways in which a totalitarian state twisted ordinary lives" --

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Other Editions

  • I'm an Old Commie!Dalkey Archive Press2017-01-01

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