by Nausicaa Marbe · Prometheus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044647280
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«Wachten op het Westen» is the personal account of Dutch author Nausicaa Marbe, published by Prometheus in paperback (224 pages, in Dutch).
The author recalls her childhood in Ceaușescu's communist Romania: scarcity, surveillance and closed borders. She grew up in Bucharest's artistic milieu, where fear coexisted with defiance. The coronavirus lockdown made her relive what she describes as a nineteen-year quarantine and her desire for openness to the Western world.
Nausicaa Marbe is a Dutch journalist, columnist and writer of Romanian origin, author of Mândraga and Smeergeld. The book falls under the categories of Literature and Fiction and History.
For readers of memoirs and testimonies about life under the communist regimes of Eastern Europe and their connection to the present.
