• ISBN13: 9780857426512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 228
• Original Price: INR 599.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 360 grams

Victoria has recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown bucharest, where she works at a Bank. The Bank is robbed, she’s put on leave, and in processing the trauma she strolls around town. Each street triggers a vision, as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime mix with the radically changed city and world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, she and her former self cross paths with the Bank Robber and a rich cast of characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one of its daughters. In her novel, The swiss-romanian writer Dana grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colourful pictures. With much good humour and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises and where the new still contains a great deal of the old— a world bursting with character and spirit. ‘All the elements of good literature come together in this book: humour, comedy, tragedy, poetry, melancholy, sadness, misery, and love.’ zürcher zeitung. ‘Colourful and enlightening, fun and thought-provoking at the same time.’ Schweitzer feuilletondienst.

Dana Grigorcea was born in 1979 in Bucharest.After studying in Belgium, Germany and Austria, she moved to Switzerland. Her essays have appeared in newspapers across Europe and her novels have been translated into several languages. Her 2011 debut novel, Baba Rada, won the Swiss Literary Pearl. She was awarded the 3sat Prize in Klagenfurt at the 2015 Ingeborg Bachmann Competition for An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence.