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Review of Contemporary Fiction: Writings from Postcommunist Romania

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A collection of short stories and essays by some of the greatest contemporary Romanian writers—and featuring such acclaimed authors as Andrei Codrescu and Dumitru Tsepeneag—this special issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction focuses on the realities of living and writing in Romania under communism, and then the often painful, often peculiarly comic transition to a different way of life after the fall of Ceausescu.

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