Status Updates From Sydney Journals

But of course he fled as an established writer and regularly corresponded with his original countrymen, while she was a teenager when she fled Romania.

My thought starting this book is that it will make an interesting counterpart to Witold Gombrowicz’s journal (although much shorter in this version!). Both writers driven from home by war or oppressive regimes, and living for decades on other continents, speaking other tongues at least part of the time.