Train to Trieste, Domnica Radulescu
Train to Trieste, Domnica Radulescu
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Train to Trieste

Author: Domnica Radulescu

Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/05/2008

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

The lyrical story of a young woman's journey from the totalitarianism of Eastern Europe to the freedom of America, told by an author who knows first-hand about living in a cruel and absurd dictatorship.

It's the summer of 1977, and seventeen-year-old Mona is madly in love. Visiting her aunt's village at the foot of the misty Carpathian mountains, all she can think about is the mysterious, handsome Mihai, the woods where they linger, his deep green eyes, and his cool, starched sheets.

Romania is in the early years of the repressive Ceausescu regime. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favored by the secret police. Could he be one of them?

As food shortages worsen, paranoia grows, and more of her loved ones disappear in "accidents," Mona realizes she must leave her country. She makes a daring escape to America without saying goodbye to Mihai. In Chicago, she becomes a doctoral student, marries, has children, and tries to bury her longing for the past—until she feels compelled to return home and learn the truth about her one great love.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lance on October 01, 2009

One feels that there is a LOT of the author in this book. She brings out both the beauty and the ugliness of Romania. During the years leading up to the 1989 revolution, there was a justifiable culture of distrust amongst friends combined with a strengthening of family bonds. This is brought out so......more

Goodreads review by Kathrina on July 08, 2010

Wow. This was exactly the book I was searching for -- a book that brings the beauty of the Romanian landscape, the consciousness of the contemporary Romanian with all the poetic perspective that comes so naturally through the language, with an American sensibility to honestly portray the harrowing d......more

Goodreads review by Kamilė | Bukinistė on February 19, 2020

Tai nebuvo labai jau lengvai gliaudenamas skaitinys, norėjosi jam atiduoti savo susikaupimą ir laiką. Vien faktas, jog šiame romane nemažai autorės autobiografijos, lyg ir įpareigojo visu tekstu tikėti stipriau, pajausti stipriau. Ir kaip pajausti šalį - Rumuniją, nuoširdžiau, jeigu ji, atrodo, juk......more

Goodreads review by Vilma on February 18, 2023

Pradesiut taip...na, nemegstu tokiu knygu, bet taip pat man jos patinka...jos tikros... Romanas pilnas istoriniu faktu, tikrove kuria teko isgyventi didziajai dalei Europos. Sistema/santvarka, kurios tikriausiai dalis nesuprato, dalis kovojo nes suprato, kad taip neturi buti, o dalis bande isgyventi p......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 23, 2009

The protagonist discovers love as a teenager in the repressive Romania of Ceaucescu and then flees the demons (real and imagined) that haunt her to find a new life in America. Although she gains a mature sense of self, she remains nostalgic for the land she has left and the life and love she has los......more