Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by LizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read.
- Open to a random page.
- Share 2 teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
- Be careful not to include spoilers.
- Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
I'm reading quite a few books at the moment: short stories, a classic, two more or less cosy mysteries and a novel set in Romania during the Ceausescu dictatorship. My teaser is from the latter. The novel is called Train to Trieste and it is written by Domnica Radulescu, who was born in Romania but has lived in the US since 1983. I'm only on page 32 of the book now, but it seems really promising.
Here comes the teaser. Mona Maria has just met her boyfriend and starts sneaking out early every morning to meet him. Before going out she wants to wash her hair. I love the subtle humour in Mona Maria's comment on the Party. :)
" Sometimes we don't get water at all early in the morning or late at night. The Party is always trying to make us economize for something, heat or energy, frantically pushing us towards the Socialist utopia that will be here any day now." [p. 13]
Last year I became very intereated in reading novels set in Middle & Eastern European countries. It seems that that interest has returned. :) I have two books set in Bosnia Pretty Birds by Scott Simon and Sarabande by Marcus Fedder , and a collection of contemporary Slovene fiction with the lovely name Angels Beneath the Surface in my TBR pile. Hmm, I really should get to Angels Beneath the Surface before my upcoming trip to Slovenia in July...
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