Do you know who Maria Cartarescu is? She is the mother of the author Mircea Cartarescu. In the book Blinding The Left Wing,
Inside Maria Cartarescu’s shoulder handbag:
- 2 wristwatches without wrist bands.
- Some fuses
- A vacuum tube from an old radio
- Little things for the boy Mircea to play with
- a sheet of yellow paper wrapped around 2 braids of yellow-grey hair, tied with elastics.
- documents
- receipts
- rental contracts
- warranties
- yellow pills
- old faded pictures
- old coins
- small cross
- white plastic flower
- old, developed film rolls
- discharge papers
- medals
- photos of Mireica’s parents
- Maria’s dentures.
This is the cover I bought:

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