Preserving Communist Romania Through Fiction with Tudor Alexander
What stories get lost when history is only told by the winners, or by those who left before the hardest parts happened?
Tudor Alexander is a Romanian-born novelist and author of seven published novels, four in the U.S., focused on immigrants and the experience of leaving home for a new language and culture. His recent novels, The Last Patient and In Darkness and Light, explore life in pre- and post-WWII communist Romania, drawing on his grandmother's memories, his mother-in-law's deportation during WWII, and his own immigration to the U.S. nearly 50 years ago.
In this episode, Tudor shares…
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