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Liliana Corobca

    Liliana Corobca, a doctor of philology, focuses on the character in the interwar Romanian novel. Her work often delves into themes of identity, memory, and the impact of history on individuals. Corobca writes with precise language and keen psychological depth, offering readers an engaging exploration of the human experience. Her novels are valued for their literary craftsmanship and profound insights into life's complexities.

    Un an în paradis
    The Censor's Notebook
    Kinderland
    • The Censor's Notebook

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Emilia Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of Romanian censors' notebooks, viewed as State secrets, but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one. Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to 'Liliana Corobca' for the newly instituted Museum of Communism The 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 Censor's Notebook2022
    • Kinderland

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Kinderland unfolds through the letters of a young girl to her absent parents. Her dispatches go unanswered, but they relay to a reader lively tales of cruel pranks and jovial reconciliations, pain and tenderness, despair and hope as these young children grow up alone with sadness, and longing. With her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village populated almost entirely with children and old people. Just as most of the inhabitants left their countryside and homes with the desire to earn a better income, their parents also went to the world for money, the mother to Italy, the father to Siberia, and the children were left to fend for themselves. Here the youth must learn to survive on their own; they grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, and chasing their fading memories of normal family life. A novel that deals with a painful true

      Kinderland2015
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    • Un an în Paradis este un an petrecut în infernul vânzării de carne vie, unde totul se tranzacționează, mai puțin amintirea unei lumi pierdute la târgurile de sclavi ale lumii în care trăim. O carte în care femeile au un singur rost: să producă plăcere. O poveste dintr-o lume violentă, mai degrabă imaginată decât trăită.

      Un an în paradis2005