![]() ![]() ![]() Alina resents that she must take a low paid job as a teacher to enable her husband to finish college, something she was thereby unable to achieve. Refusing to help the newly weds who have defied her, their early married life is made more difficult than it needed to be. For all her communist ideals, Mother continues to regard her new son-in-law as a peasant. ![]() Alina’s aunt, Theresa, has influential connections through her marriage and uses these to help her niece when she can.Īlina marries Liviu against her mother’s wishes. Her mother is an apparent zealot for the regime, although this may be her way of retaining control over her daughter who has a tendency to dream of fulfilling yearnings of her own. The protagonist is a young woman named Alina whose wealthy family lost their land to the communist government before she was born. It is structured in short chapters with each offering a window into everyday life in Romania under Ceaușescu. From the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019 longlist – Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn.īottled Goods is described as a novella in flash fiction. ![]()
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