Moldova


El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
The Good Life Elsewhere
Grădina de sticlă
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
The Power
Set in Stone
Kinderland
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Dezrădăcinare
Când ești fericit, lovește primul
Moldova: A History
Iar dimineața vor veni rușii
Before Brezhnev Died
Bessarabian Nights
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Ion Druță
“ O, soare balcanic, revărsat peste văile şi dealurile moldave, o, acele iubiriscurte, scînteietoare, istovitoare, cît de mult aduceţi voi în scurta noastră trecere pe acest pămînt, şi cît de mult luaţi cu voi pentru a nu le mai întoarce niciodată... ”
― Ion Druță, Frunze de dor

Walter Perrie
“ Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Russia began a period of rapid expansion with the aim of making the Black Sea a Russsian lake and, ultimately, gaining access to the Mediterranean. Moldavia and Wallachia were importantly situated pawns in that game, while the Western Powers manoeuvred among themselves to exlude Russia from the Balkans. They thereby found themselves propping up a decadent Ottoman Empire while at the same time espousing the values of liberalism or, more often, romantic n ...more ”
― Walter Perrie, Roads That Move: A Journey through Eastern Europe

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