The Romanian capital will be in the spotlight at the Un Weekend à l’Est festival, from November 18 to December 1 in Paris.
A feeling of suffocation emerged fromA train to the end of the world. “The absence of exclamation marks and question marks is intentional», Mentions Daniela Rațiu, Brașov-born writer and journalist, in the endnotes of her first book translated into French. The sentences are short, sometimes consisting of only one word. Small dialogue or line breaks punctuate the text. Even more disturbing are the images of starvation and terror experienced by the Moldovan people during the famine at the end of the Second World War. After the devastation caused by the conflict, drought and demands for grain by the Soviet government starved Moldova. Stefan and Saveta, the writer’s grandfather and grandmother, and their five children were victims. Using family archives, Daniela Rațiu reconstructs their struggle for survival and their lives
