When the Providence Allows

by Oma Stanescu

This novel is about a woman's inner and outer struggles in an adrift society, a society which lost its decency, governed by money and pleasures, where the genuine feelings and sentiments are tramped over, as garbage. As the Romanian writer critic Vasile Andru puts "There is a realism in Oma Stanescu that is close to unbearable. Along with her disarming sincerity, we find a prose that symbolizes, a percussive phrase, with a special syntax and a power of "photographing" the language. Regarding the love relationship in the book , beauty and bitterness intertwine. The meeting with the man, who initially presents himself in the form of the archetype of the groom, fails in the superficiality with which the partner understands to treat his woman, exclusively from the perspective of sexual engagement. We are thus dealing with quite a drama frequency today, in which love is no longer that mystical whisper, often things degenerate into brutality. All this intertwinning of eloquently evoked facts and sentiments make Oma a writer of considerable scope."

131 pages, Paperback

Published October 9, 2024