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
Never Mind the Vampires, Here's Transylvania
β Scribed by Ormsby, Mike
- Book ID
- 100641610
- Publisher
- Nicoaro Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1973896141
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
βThe modern world is turning rural Romania upside down and inside out. Mike Ormsby captures well the agony and ecstasy of this transition. With an ear for local vernacular and the surreal dialogue of the Gypsies β and a quirky eye for detail, it is a book to make you smile, but also sigh for the old days, and old ways, and wonder at the havoc the modern world has wreaked in these remote country communitiesβ β William Blacker, Author, Along The Enchanted Way
Has Cover : Yes
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
All Identifiers : isbn:9786069390276, mobi-asin:B075SJGNNP
Single Author : Mike Ormsby
Original Source : New_Files_Oatmeal_07_28_LATE
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Ormsby, Mike
Title Length : 044
Title Parm D : Never Mind the Vampires, Here's Transylvania
Title Parm F : Never Mind the Vampires, Here's Transylvania
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-07
Record ID : 16944
Uncomma Author : Mike Ormsby
Title Parm A : Never Mind the Vampires, Here's Transylvania
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