Burying the Typewriter

Carmen Bugan

Burying the Typewriter

‘This story starts roughly in the 1970s, a few years after I was born, about the time when I began to have memories and my father’s codename was already long established as “Andronic”, a name we learned about only last summer . . .’

At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983, Carmen Bugan’s father left the family home, alone. That afternoon, Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father’s protest against the regime had changed her life for ever. This is her story. 

Exploring the view of homeland through the lens of exile.
Rosanna Boscawen
 


Rosanna Boscawen
 


Rosanna Boscawen
 

This wonderfully evocative poem appears at the beginning of Carmen's memoir, Burying the Typewriter, which details what happened to her and her family, isolated and under surveillance        during the Ceauşescu regime in România.