Train to Trieste (Vintage)

In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a green-eyed boy who lives in Brasov, the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. But under the Ceausescu dictatorship, paranoia infects everyone; soon Mona begins to suspect that Mihai is part of the secret police. As food shortages worsen and her loved ones begin to disappear, Mona realizes that she too must leave. Over the next twenty years, she struggles to bury her longing for the past, yet she eventually finds herself compelled to return, determined to learn the truth about her one great love.

• ISBN13: 9780307388360
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Rating: (out of 15 reviews)

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Train to Trieste (Vintage) Reviews

Review by Linda Clark-Borre:

The novel’s protagonist is the sort of character to whom most of us, I suspect, can identify. Who has not been torn by doubt about the direction in which our world, our countries, our own lives are headed?

Second guessing the motives of others – especially those we allow ourselves to love – can send tremors through the core of our being as we seek anchors and enough “real” affection to get us through a reality that is at once both exquisitely beautiful and unjustifiably harsh. There’s a little of a refugee in all of us who try to strike a balance between our need to draw closer and to believe wholeheartedly for the sake of an ideal, with our need to be sensible, and to protect ourselves and those we love.

This beautifully wrought story reminds us that with luck–along with courage,a sense of humor, curiosity and passion–we can sustain ourselves through life’s wild ups and downs, and deal with our hidden fears as we take on some very obvious ones. It’s about hard experience, sweet memory…and survival.

Review by johnbirding:

In the seventies I visited Romania several times as a travelling student and encountered many strange things and lovely people there, so I was very interested in this semi-autobiographical novel about the dark recent past of this country. And indeed, several of my recollections revived thanks to this book. The way she describes the uncertainties about who you could trust and who not, are very illustrative. For this alone, the book is to be recommended if you want to understand a bit of that dreadful period. At the same time, she also conveys much of the lively spirit many a Romanian still had despite the misery.

On the other hand, however, I must say that I had to nearly skip many a passage in order to keep the story alive. The author regularly dwells a bit long in a flowery style about things which distract from the main story. Also, at the end of the book, everything seems to land too easily on its feet in a rather short chapter.

Still, this book may induce me to revisit this country, after so many years. Note that my ‘mixed feelings’ are partly a reflection of my feelings about what apparently could happen to the inhabitants of this beautiful country, in terms of mutual trust. Let’s hope they will have a bright future.

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