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ver the terrace floated a bitter scent, and Mami lifted her nose, expecting to recognize it at once. The green awning shuddered for a long while, for the smell of almonds had risen, poisoned, to the eight bells whose fragile bodies felt instantly attacked. From the checkered shirt streamed a sadness soaked in the toxic perfumes of an old crime.
(The Checkered Shirt, 2010)
🎙️ Famous Signatures – Doina Ruști at Radio România Actualități
Last year, her novel The Ghost in the Mill received the Romanian Writers’ Union Award and was translated into Italian, while Zogru, The Little Red Man, and many of her short stories have appeared in French, Spanish, Hungarian, and Bulgarian. The powerful novel Lizoanca at the Age of Eleven was already inspiring plans for a film adaptation.
This evening, Doina Ruști discusses her newest book, The Checkered Shirt and Other Ten Stories, with journalist Mihaela Helmis, in the radio program Famous Signatures.
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