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Bury Your Dead Far Away

Name: Bury Your Dead Far Away
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SKU: 9786062818562
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Novel awarded with the 3rd PRIZE in the manuscript competition "FULLFILL A DREAM", 4th edition, 2024

Publisher: Cișmigiu Books

Author: Mihaela Bal

Edition: I

Pages: 242

Publisher year: 2024

ISBN: 978-606-28-1856-2

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The fascinating history of a mining settlement - Colonia de Jos and Orașul de Sus - lived and remembered over three generations, brings to the fore people and memories, fantastic elements and dramatic events, all set in the light of a desire to return home.
The repository of all events is Gustav the beggar, the one who finds a blind horse lost in the field between the two streams.
Real, with all the geographical data well determined, Colonia de Jos is the place where those who have gone far away, to America, Australia, France, will return one day. "Take me home!", says Linette - formerly Cătălina Lazar, before her death. And her granddaughter brings her urn with ashes from France and places it next to her others, in the cemetery on the mountain.
Life and death intertwine every day, on the surface and in the dark depths of the mine, on the streets of the colony or on the war front.
The Lazar family, with a symbolic name, is the most numerous in the land and also the oldest, but it is lost, spread throughout the world.
"Bury Your Dead Far Away" is a labyrinthine novel where people of different ethnicities live and "intersect" in the rocky silence of the mountains.
The fantastic element that enhances the aura of the events – the blind horse that transforms at the moment of death and sees the world with open eyes, Vâlva Băilor, a kind of fairy of the mine – opens other roads, other galleries to the depths of a time that remained closed under the mountain.

CLELIA IFRIM

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MIHAELA BAL is an essayist and prose writer. A professor of Romanian language and literature in a Bucharest college, she had the privilege of teaching in the Jiu Valley for several years, starting in 1987. The echoes of that pioneering period reverberate in this novel.

Publications:
Articles and reviews, critical essays, in collective volumes and magazines (Words without horizon in Annales Universitas Apulensis, Alba Iulia, 2009, Elements of the religious imagination in the dance of Calus in Incursiuni in imaginar, Sibiu, 2009, Pathological readings in Annales Universitatii „Constantin Brancusi”, Targu-Jiu, 2010, Maria Dorubschi, the character with the soul in bags in „Prosaeculum”, Focsani, 2010, The eye and the gaze in Incursiuni in imaginar, Alba Iulia, 2011, How many ways do books die in Annales Universitas Apulensis, 2013, The novel as a survival manual in „Banchetul”, Petrosani, 2016 etc.)

Volumes of essays:
Through the Jiu Valley, from Ion D. Sirbu to Dumitru Velea, Sitech Publishing House, Craiova, 2011; Tuesday Essays, Contrafort Publishing House, Craiova, 2012; Short prose in magazines (Fascination of Lies in "Vatra veche", Targu Mures, 2015, The Best Friend in "Vatra veche", Targu Mures, 2018; The Holoroacul in "The Banquet", Petrosani, 2019; Life Between Hours in "The Banquet", Petrosani, 2020)

Collective volume of prose: The Maricica Express or How to Become an Author Without Having Talent, Contrafort Publishing House, Craiova, 2013

Under the sign of the blind horse / 5
Like in fairy tales / 20
The moments of spring / 26
In the castle of Count Ianka / 33
Turbulent times / 39
The two Cătălinas / 48
Family promises / 52
Diary of a Colony / 62
Ion Mureșan / 67
Journalist mistakes / 73
Rumors, gossip, facts / 81
A place too far away / 89
Marriage and other failures / 94
Macarie the new / 103
The slice of watermelon / 111
At the witch's / 116
The sense of ownership / 122
Flower children / 127
Memories in Bucharest / 143
Home again / 151
The history of the chest / 155
Grigore's world / 169
Pianos and papers / 173
Old and new roads / 177
Friends never die / 180
Death as a party / 184
Between cousins / 190
Parents and children / 197
The flea market / 205
A simple hike / 210
The house of black cats / 221
The gentle hand of the mother / 225
Galleries to the Colony / 230

All my childhood, the castle poured out on me the fascination of the distant. And now I see it there, growing from the steep bank of the stream, serrating the sky with its Gothic tower. On any street in Colonie you took, you could not help but end up behind it. The day when I first entered there was the most beautiful of my childhood. In the evening I told Gustav what Tierra del Fuego looked like, describing to him, in fact, the landscape that I admired from one of the windows of the castle. Gustav smiled indulgently, then described Alaska to me and, as I realized, it was the landscape that I saw with him later, from the window of another room in the castle.

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