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Book of the Week: Burying the Typewriter

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When a courier is needed, it's Carmen who volunteers.

Bugan family life is becoming untenable. When a courier is needed, Carmen volunteers. Concluded by Anamaria Marinca.

Life is becoming untenable for the Bugan family and when a courier is needed, it's Carmen who volunteers.

Burying The Typewriter is Carmen Bugan's memoir of growing up in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s when the country was governed by Ceausescu, and his network of agents and informers, the Securitate, exerted a malign influence in every sphere of society.

Carmen Bugan was educated at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Balliol College, Oxford, where she was awarded a doctorate. Her first book of poetry, Crossing The Carpathians, was published by Oxford Poets/Carcanet in 2004.

"A beautiful, vivid memoir..." 
The Guardian

"It is the more moving and powerful for being so quiet and thoughtful..."
The Independent

"A warm and humane work..."
The Observer

Reader: Anamaria Marinca
(BAFTA award winner for 'Sex Traffic' 2005)

Abridged by Pete Nichols


Produced by Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.

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Carmen Bugan's memoir of growing up in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s

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