"...the moment a Russian realized you were Romanian, he'd try by all means to frustrate you: Russian doctors would prescribe you the wrong treatment, on purpose, while shop girls would deliberately sell you rotten salami..."
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22 October 2009, by Diana Varbanescu
"... the style is very much cinematographic, that of a "director manqué", quite pictorial, using strong visualisations, colourful, a bit like a display of watercolours in an exhibition, following some narrative sense. The writing is also devoid of fake romanticism. Instead it is candid, humorous at times and intuitive. But the key to this novel is really my attempt to capture the ephemeral and render it everlasting"
22 October 2009, by Felix Nicolau
"Why should one dare to build a trilogy at the treshold between the second and the third millenia? When people read less and less and the microtext marches in triumph? Could be a maniacal, an overwhelming impulse or a try to systematise the themes.."
21 October 2009, by Voicu Mihnea Şimăndan
The endeavor to achieve perfect beauty has always been part of our existence. Everything that we do, say or dream is, in a way or another, connected to the humans’ desire to be part of something beautiful. Either it is related to our physical aspect, or just to the things that surround us, things that...
21 October 2009, by Voicu Mihnea Şimăndan
Aaron Le Boutillier was born in 1970 in Jersey, a small island in the English Channel. He is the author of And Then One Morning - A Personal Odyssey, a book about the 2004 tsunami. The book is written from the perspective of a person who lost his best friend on the Island of Phi Phi in southern Thailand.
10 October 2009, by Voicu Mihnea Şimăndan
And Then One Morning is a nostalgic account of the author’s love with Phi Phi ever since he set foot on the island in June 1993 and until the day when his friend’s decaying body was finally given a proper Buddhist burial.