Petitorul
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Translated title: The Matchmaker
Author: Vidich, Paul
Genre: Thriller / Historical Fiction
Year: 2025 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91503
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Berlin, 1989. As protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain, Anne Simpson, an American translator working for the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, believes she is happily married to a charming East German. Then her husband suddenly disappears, and the CIA and West German intelligence arrive at her door.
Anne discovers that nothing about her marriage is what it seemed. She had been deliberately targeted by the Matchmaker, a senior East German counterintelligence officer who controls a network of Stasi agents known as 'Romeos'. These men marry vulnerable women in West Berlin, using their relationships as cover while gathering intelligence. Anne's husband was one of them - and now he has disappeared and is presumed dead.
The CIA is desperate to find the Matchmaker because of his close connections to the KGB and his knowledge of a high-ranking Soviet defector. Anne is their best chance of identifying him before he escapes to Moscow. As the Berlin Wall falls and East Germany descends into chaos, time is running out. But what if Anne's husband is still alive? And what if Anne has reasons of her own for finding the man who turned her marriage into an intelligence operation?
Camping
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Author: Braniste, Lavinia
Genre: Social Fiction
Year: 2025 | Pages: 248 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91465
Trapped for twenty years between Spain and Romania, between a 'home' to which she is connected through a screen blurred by a weak internet connection and the torpor of the 'El Titi' campsite, which is both her home and place of work, Sofia plans her return to the country. On the verge of retirement, she enters a whirlwind of memories, remorse, attachments and introspection.
In retrospect, the landmarks of her life become increasingly vague. Her native language no longer belongs entirely to her, while her adopted one is impossible to assimilate, Europe and abroad are two barely perceptible universes, limited to airports and the time zone difference, compatriots make themselves heard, more than anything else, through posts on Facebook groups, and her son, the motivation behind her clandestine departure, seems lost long before she realized it
Un detectiv si niste tablouri dintr-o expozitie si alte povestiri
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Translated title: A Detective and Some Paintings from an Exhibition and Other Stories
Author: Bergler, Igor
Genre: Thriller / Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 202 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91492
A text of insane density, intelligent and entertaining at the same time, in which Márquez meets Borges, Kafka meets Goethe and Eco meets Bulgakov. A book not to be missed, a roller coaster that you can't ride without a seatbelt and where nothing is what it seems.
After the first two books, The Lost Bible and The Testament of Abraham, both massive on the outside, inexhaustible on the inside, surprising and unique in our current literature - this is just to suppress my temptation to make even more radical statements, Igor Bergler seems to be taking a short breather and relaxing with six short stories.
Paradoxically, bigger on the inside than on the outside, partly recovered and reconfigured from the scrap metal wagons left after the construction site of the two novels, they align beautifully and consequently manifest the most mischievous, most unpredictable, most melancholic or sadder and, why not, most ethical categories of devils.
But what, after all, are Igor Bergler's demons?
Are they entities of hell, cruel punishments that man must endure for the simple reason that evil is the obligatory complement of good, are they forces of dissolution, because they cannot bear the grandeur of creation, or, simply, are they our more or less conscious nature, are they our energies set free or, who knows, if not our great chance to penetrate where the common good and cautious gesture give us no chance?
But until a convincing answer, which only the reader can provide, one thing is beyond discussion: with these six surprising stories, Igor Bergler, in addition to managing to say in flashbacks what he has so far only said in epics, also brings new specimens of devils to our literary hell, much improved compared to other similar products, which, obviously, will not be easily forgiven
Doua cafele si inima ta
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Translated title: Two Coffees and Your Heart
Author: Fica-Geta, Epan
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 284 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91450
The protagonists go through a series of tensions, which, for a good part of the time, portray them as the worst enemies, because they come from different social backgrounds, Vanessa, being the only child of a wealthy family, and Puiu, the young man abandoned at birth in an orphanage, born to a Romanian mother and a Roma father.
However, chance encounters and repeated teasing with a bittersweet flavor lead them to the thrill of love that is born and gradually grows. Despite the revenge plan, hatched against Vanessa, Puiu falls into the trap of his own vanity, acquiring in an unpredictable form the hypostasis of being in love.
The relationship between the fierce Romanian woman and the charming Puiu, who lives in a Roma neighborhood, according to completely different social rules than those known to Vanessa, unexpectedly changes the lives of both of them.
Madly in love with the man, the woman enters his world, discovers it, accepts it and wants to understand it. Despite financial difficulties, emotional turmoil and the prejudices of those around her, Vanessa puts above love, the feeling of security with her life partner, to whom she offers all her trust and love
Orizont imperfect
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Translated title: Imperfect Horizon
Author: Tache, Ionel
Genre: Social Fiction
Year: 2025 | Pages: 144 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91479
'Imperfect Horizon' is an attempt to introduce the reader to the daily life of the main characters, with their accomplishments and illusions.
The main characters are more deeply portrayed because all the action takes place around them, being exponential in their interaction with the other less sketched characters. The two characters oscillate between the deep joy of fulfillment and the futile, useless search for the precious thing lost, respectively between the easy life and the almost desperate rush to the horizon, hoping not to miss the only train to complete fulfillment. Reality is strictly tangential to the imagination, meeting only at a few points necessary to anchor everything in a real time and necessary to give veracity to the characters
Doamna din lac
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Translated title: The Lady of the Lake
Author: Lippman, Laura
Genre: Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91497
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In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know - everyone except Madeline 'Maddie' Schwartz.
A year ago she was a happy, even spoiled wife - now, she has left her husband, after twenty years of marriage, determined to fulfill her youthful dream, to find the purpose and passion of her life, to leave her mark on a world in constant change.
When he helps the police find the lifeless body of a murdered girl, he manages to get a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star .
Here, she has the opportunity to build a reputation and it seems she has found exactly the story to propel her: a missing woman whose body is discovered in a park fountain.
But the woman is black, and everyone's prejudice means that Maddie becomes the only person who cares about why she was killed.
In her search, Maddie comes into contact with all kinds of people who, until then, were far outside her circles.
But, often, ambition and tenacity blind her, and her inability to see beyond her own needs will spell disaster, both for her and for those around her
Ferenike
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Author: Rusti, Doina
Genre: Social Fiction
Year: 2025 | Pages: 252 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91480
Alive, flowing (like the river in the book, on the banks of which Doina Rusti builds her own Macondo, a place where no one is allowed to look at the clock), the story in Ferenike conquers through color and ingenuity.
The events and places, the house and the mill, the fountain, the things (however big, however small), the land, the water, although they seem to have a unique autobiographical correspondent, fixed in reality, all open up towards the symbol and (sometimes) the fantastic.
And the characters, with names ranging from picturesque to strange, are a gallery of paintings painted front and back, reality and fiction. In their midst, looking at them with the eyes of then and now, is a little girl who wears dresses on the hems of which are written all the names she would have liked instead of the one she received
Robinson Crusoe, ultima ispita
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Translated title: Robinson Crusoe, the Last Temptation
Author: Neghina, Raul
Genre: Thriller / Fantasy
Year: 2025 | Pages: 392 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91478
Communist Romania, late 1980s.
Robert, a young doctor with unconventional investigative methods, arrives in a big city, where his life changes radically with the seemingly random encounter with Omer Savinescu - a charming character with unclear origins - who lures him into a sumptuous and silent home, decorated like a museum. The discovery of an old volume of Robinson Crusoe rekindles forgotten memories and opens a door to a lost story from childhood.
From here, everything turns into a dangerous game - an investigation of one's own past, a real race against time, inside a spider's web stretched among antiques, well-buried family chronicles and the shadows of the Securitate. A labyrinthine journey, where the boundaries of reality become increasingly fragile. Three love stories, lived at different stages of life, in a tense narrative setting, where the psychological thriller mixes with shades of fantasy, mystery, espionage and horror
Povestiri din aeroport si de pe langa 2
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Translated title: Stories from the Airport and Beyond
Series: Book 2 of 2
Author: Voicu, Adrian
Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 180 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91464
Adrian Voicu's stories are born in the break between two flights and a coffee drunk in the cold of the office, between healthy laughter and dreamy thoughts from a gloomy day, following a call from an old friend or in the rare moments of respite from plane trips, where he meets exotic characters and unexpected stories. In the second book in the series Stories from the Airport and Beyond, the author continues to gather people around words, as in a soulful cafe, without walls, but with a warm and familiar atmosphere.
With Gregoire, Jules, Pierrot, Babu, Argon and Panseluta as your flight and story companions, each page is an invitation to laughter, reflection and, above all, to intimacy. Seemingly banal, the events gain flavour through the way they are told - with irresistible humour, self-irony, intelligence and an embracing humanity.
In a hurried and chaotic world, the writer reminds us that a good story can be the anchor of a friendship, the refuge of a hard day, or the start of an evening with a smile on your face.
A book about flights, meetings, comrades, and life that is worth living with gusto and optimism at all times
Pestii cubanezi
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Translated title: Cuban Fish
Author: Stanescu, Bogdan-Alexandru
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: ROM | BA Seq Num: 91468
Far from being an attempt at psychobiographical analysis, this book is rather an attempt to unify two sides apparently separated by a chasm: life and work, like two halves of a symbolon, both equally mysterious and inexhaustible in interpretation. They do not explain each other, rather they deepen the mystery that the Author constitutes for me. The heroes of this book enter the binder carrying the colorful scales of a vanished world, but whose shadow casts its coldness on the one we live in. They are my Cuban fish, whose contemplation helps me to keep my inner space intact, paradoxically, admiring the pattern of struggles waged in the world. Equally paradoxically, the eyes that admire the colorful scales of the fish belong to authors who do not appear de facto in the book, but are ghostly presences, reading filters located outside the binder, looking over the philatelist's shoulder
