Friday, 14 February 2025

The Return – Gabriela Dumitriu


Did I weave into this book, or is this book that has woven into me? It does not matter for we have become one.

I am always very proud to discover books of Romanian contemporary literature that make my soul soar. And this book, dear readers, is maybe the most valuable one in recent years.

Introspection, social, economic and relationship analysis, all these perspectives have been carefully considered by the author and wonderfully described so that anyone can understand them, but especially the author has done wonders by reaching meanings less or none at all explained before.

Like never before, I felt the urge to underline fragments from the book (but I hate doing that to books), and thus I stopped on time, otherwise I would have underlined the entire book. But then again, there are a couple of fragments that are remarkably written.

Here below, I will give just a tiny excerpt, to entice you:

‘…

And the sensation that all the people in this room are worried about her, not because they care but because they perceive her as a problem to be solved, presses down on her, making her feel buried underneath it.

….’

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