The Devil's Grinder: Moara Dracilor

ISBN-13: 9781930972810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 211 str.

Mircea Ionescu-Quintus; Paula Console-?Oican; Cyrus Console-?Oican

Opis

This collection of Poems offered as adual-language English Romanian edition together with a critical Expose by the translators, a Preface by the author, a Chronicle and Biography, conveys to the reader a very personal tale of a human tragedy of unspeakable horrors the author endured alongsidetens of thousands of otherpolitical prisoners at forced labor camps, so-called "Gulags" at the Danube-Black Sea Canal (the "Canal") during Romania's Communist regime after WWII. This book is a"Zeitzeugnis" a witness of the time an account not only of a reprehensible past time but a very pertinent manifest for hope for younger generations everywhere in the world.This book is based on"Moara Dracilor"by Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, published in Romanian in 1999 by Editura Ion Creanga S.A., Romania. The new title is a dual-language (English-Romanian) edition, with a new Foreword, a new Preface by the author, a new About the Translators, seven additional Poems, three new Illustrations, and a new author Biography.It is a must-read for students and anyone interested in politics, political history, Eastern-European history, Communist regimes, Romania, Romanian history, Romanian politics, History of Political Oppression, Testimonial Literature, Poetry, Eastern-European poetry, Romanian poetry, and socio-political poetry."