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02969aam a2200457 i 4500 001 3F36F2B6026811E89DEE1C1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20180126010225 008 170222t20172017txu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016047019 020 $a 1628971487 020 $a 9781628971484 035 $a (OCoLC)973809828 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h rum 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-rm--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-rm 050 00 $a PC840.422.U548 $b S56 2017 082 00 $a 859/.335 $2 23 100 1 $a Lungu, Dan, $d 1969- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017010322 240 10 $a SiÌnt o babaÌ comunistaÌ! $l English 245 10 $a I'm an old commie! / $c Dan Lungu ; translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth. 250 $a First Dalkey Archive edition. 264 1 $a Victoria, TX : $b Dalkey Archive, $c 2017. 300 $a 174 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Romanian literature series 500 $a "Originally published in Romanian by Editura Polirom as SiÌnt o babaÌ comunistaÌ! in 2011"--Title page verso. 520 $a "Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada, telephones urging her not to vote for the former communists in upcoming elections. Determined to discover in her own mind why 'things were better back then, ' she explores her memories of growing up in an impoverished village and of her life as a factory worker in the town. But ironic tension grows as the reader glimpses between the lines how nothing was what it seemed in Ceaușescu's Romania. Interspersed among Emilia's memories are fantastical, hilarious anecdotes about the dictator, told by a factory foreman who will turn out to have been a secret police informer. I'm a Communist Old Biddy! is a subtle and humane novel about self-deception, but also about the ways in which a totalitarian state twisted ordinary lives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Retired women $v Fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010110952 650 0 $a Post-communism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Communism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-deception $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Romania $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492 655 7 $a Political fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026482 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 700 1 $a Blyth, Alistair Ian, $e translator. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008079534 830 0 $a Romanian literature series. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009103947 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126071454.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3F36F2B6026811E89DEE1C1997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search