Dimineaţă pierdută by Gabriela Adameșteanu

The shop is still in their house but has long since been closed by the Communists. She kept the money and used it to set up a shop. Before he died, he gave Vica some money and inadvertently overpaid her. He had another family, to whom he left his money when he died. Vica and her siblings declined to follow. Her father returned and resumed his life but, eventually, he remarried and moved out. Since then she has always been hard-working, never afraid to put her hand to anything. She well remembers the zeppelins dropping bombs on Bucharest. Vica just about managed to make ends meet, with the money her father left, some work and help from her grandmother and neighbours. Sadly, before he returned, the mother died, leaving the eleven-year old Vica in charge of her younger siblings. However, he was called up to fight for Romania in August 1916, leaving his wife and children. They have survived the hardships of Romania from World War I to the present day.

They have no children – she did not want any. She likes to talk to people so goes out to see people. She can never talk to her husband and says Your husband should know you from the waist down. Vica likes to go out, partially to escape her husband. They are poor, living on a meagre pension and whatever Vica can hustle from others. He was dashing when she married him but now he sits in front of the television and expects his wife to wait on him. Based on the various dates, it seems to be 1975. Our heroine is Vica Delcă, a seventy-year old Romanian woman who lives in Bucharest (but not the centre) under the Communist regime. Home » Romania » Gabriela Adameșteanu » Dimineață pierdută (Wasted Morning) Gabriela Adameșteanu: Dimineață pierdută (Wasted Morning)

Dimineaţă pierdută by Gabriela Adameșteanu