‘The lemon house’, by Corina Oproae: in Ceausescu’s Romania

«I don’t know what ‘Securitate’ means; When I asked dad, he told me that whenever I hear it, I should act like someone who hears it rain,” says the girl who is the protagonist of the beautiful novel ‘The Lemon House’, by the poet and translator Corina Oproae (Transylvania, …

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