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Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Secret Police
Price: £16.99
Add to basketCarmen Bugan's moving and poetic testimony of a childhood spent under the totalitarian Ceausescu regime has drawn comparisons to Anna Funder's 'Stasiland'. As she describes her father's one-man protest, and the subsequent isolation and surveillance endured by his family, Bugan creates a powerfully intimate piece of recent history.
Format: Hardback, 255rpp
Publication date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781447210832