Romania, guest of honour at the Salon du Livre, Paris 2013
Romania will be the guest of honour at the Salon du Livre (Paris 2013 International Book Fair) to be held in Paris on March 22-25, 2013. The following Romanian writers published by Polirom or Cartea romaneasca are... read moreRomanian writers at the Jerusalem Book Fair 2013
Between 10th and 15th of February, four Romanian writers published by Polirom or Cartea Romaneasca will be present al the Jerusalem Book Fair 2013: Varujan Vosganian, Vasile Ernu, Lucian Dan Teodorovici,... read more
THE GHOST OF A MAN in love haunts Europe, on the trail of a married woman. From Barcelona to Leghorn, from Naples to Villefranche-sur-Mer, he follows me like a shadow, a mad Romanian on the faint trail of an adulterous Spanish woman. Our love was linked to water, to a dyke on the Cantabrian Sea, to six anchors he saw against the sky, to Mediterranean cruises. While the Tinto Brass Band and I were thrilling audiences in the concert room, Adrian was on the train, or in a bus, or somewhere on an aeroplane, always on my trail, trails of foam and salt that did not dissolve on the shore, but took on life precisely there...
