Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Bottled Goods

Sophie van Llewyn
3.66/5 (1117 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize, this poignant, lyrical novel is set in 1970s Romania during Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime--and depicts childhood, marriage, family, and identity in the face of extreme obstacles.

Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall under suspicion and surveillance, and their lives are suddenly turned upside down--just like the glasses in her superstitious Aunt Theresa's house that are used to ward off evil spirits.

But Alina's evil spirits are more corporeal: a suffocating, manipulative mother; a student who accuses her; and a menacing Secret Services agent who makes one-too-many visits. As the couple continues to be harassed, their marriage soon deteriorates. With the government watching--and most likely listening--escape seems impossible . . . until Alina's mystical aunt proposes a surprising solution to reduce her problems to a manageable size.

Weaving elements of magic realism, Romanian folklore, and Kafkaesque paranoia into a gritty and moving depiction of one woman's struggle for personal and political freedom, Bottled Goods is written in short bursts of "flash fiction" and explores universal themes of empowerment, liberty, family, and loyalty.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
190 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Fairlight Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:

Bottled Goods

Sophie van Llewyn
3.66/5 (1117 ratings)
Read Download
Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize, this poignant, lyrical novel is set in 1970s Romania during Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime--and depicts childhood, marriage, family, and identity in the face of extreme obstacles.

Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall under suspicion and surveillance, and their lives are suddenly turned upside down--just like the glasses in her superstitious Aunt Theresa's house that are used to ward off evil spirits.

But Alina's evil spirits are more corporeal: a suffocating, manipulative mother; a student who accuses her; and a menacing Secret Services agent who makes one-too-many visits. As the couple continues to be harassed, their marriage soon deteriorates. With the government watching--and most likely listening--escape seems impossible . . . until Alina's mystical aunt proposes a surprising solution to reduce her problems to a manageable size.

Weaving elements of magic realism, Romanian folklore, and Kafkaesque paranoia into a gritty and moving depiction of one woman's struggle for personal and political freedom, Bottled Goods is written in short bursts of "flash fiction" and explores universal themes of empowerment, liberty, family, and loyalty.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
190 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Fairlight Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:

More Books

Victimă fără chip (Fabian Risk, #1)

Stefan Ahnhem

To Go on Living: Stories

Narine Abgaryan

Sînt o babă comunistă!

Dan Lungu

The Nazis Knew My Name

Magda Hellinger

Eu sunt 70072. Fetița care a supraviețuit „Îngerului Morții”

Lidia Maksymowicz

The Party

Tessa Hadley

Three Apples Fell from the Sky

Narine Abgaryan

I'm a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World

Sharon Lee De La Cruz

Simon

Narine Abgaryan

La Part des Anges

Bruno Combes

Bureți de fag

M. Duțescu

Enigma la Mansardă

Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu