Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir by Carmen Bugan (English) Paperback Book

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Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, this warm and intelligent debut is a poignant reminder of a dramatic moment in Eastern European history. "Burying the Typewriter" is Bugan's childhood memoir of her exasperating father and his arrest and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years.

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Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's behavior was too disturbing to ignore. He wept when listening to Radio Free Europe, hid pamphlets in sacks of dried beans, and mysteriously buried and reburied a typewriter. When she discovered he was a political dissident she became anxious for him to conform. However, with her mother in the hospital and her sister at boarding school, she was alone, and helpless to stop him from driving off on one last, desperate protest. After her father's subsequent imprisonment, Bugan was shunned by her peers at school and informed on by her neighbors. She candidly struggled with the tensions of loving her "hero" father who caused the family so much pain. When he returned from prison and the family was put under house arrest, the Bugans were forced to chart a new course for the future. A warm and intelligent debut, Burying the Typewriter provides a poignant reminder of a dramatic moment in Eastern European history.

Author Biography

Carmen Bugan is the author of the collection of poetry Crossing the Carpathians. Her work has been published in Harvard Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and Modern Poetry in Translation.

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"In Burying the Typewriter, Carmen Bugan delivers neither a memoir of blame nor a hagiography. What she has drawn, within the story of her own childhood, is a complex portrait of an exasperating father, a man who happens to be a hero in the eyes of Amnesty International and the Western World, a hero in the service of a just cause. But, while he may be the driving force behind her story . . . it is her world that is revealed here, a world she was forced to leave behind and that she looks back on now with sorrow, pride, longing and rage." --Lynn Freed, Bakeless Prize judge

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Praise for Burying the Typewriter : "In Burying the Typewriter , Carmen Bugan delivers neither a memoir of blame nor a hagiography. What she has drawn, within the story of her own childhood, is a complex portrait of an exasperating father, a man who happens to be a hero in the eyes of Amnesty International and the Western World, a hero in the service of a just cause. But, while he may be the driving force behind her story . . . it is her world that is revealed here, a world she was forced to leave behind and that she looks back on now with sorrow, pride, longing and rage."--Lynn Freed, Bakeless Prize judge

Details ISBN1555976174 Author Carmen Bugan Short Title BURYING THE TYPEWRITER Publisher Graywolf Press Language English ISBN-10 1555976174 ISBN-13 9781555976170 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY B Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-07-03 Subtitle A Memoir Imprint Graywolf Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-07-03 NZ Release Date 2012-07-03 US Release Date 2012-07-03 UK Release Date 2012-07-03 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Audience General Pages 256 We've got this

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