βOrmsby recounts the mishaps, muddles and privations that make daily life hard for Romanians, and even harder for outsiders. But through it all comes a strange sort of affection for a place, and its people, as they struggle to regain their sanity after the years of madness under CeauΘescu. If youβre
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