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In the Most Beautiful Life/in Cea Mai Frumoasa Viata
In the Most Beautiful Life/in Cea Mai Frumoasa Viata Author:Carmen Firan, Andrei Codrescu, Isaiah Sheffer, Julian Semilian A beautiful, poetic celebration in words and photographs of contemporary Romania, by noted New York photographer Virginia Joffe and Romanian poet Carmen Firan. In collaboration, they memorialize a time when the old world collapses and a new has not yet appeared. Carmen Firan's words are filled with the magical realism of a place that seems, oc... more »casionally, harshly ultra-real, and at others, like pure fairy-tale. Virginia Joffe's memorable photographs portray unique hybrid creatures and places that have emerged in Romania from the cracks between millennia. Firan's prose and Joffe's images record the turning over of the wheel of time, the changing of once seemingly immutable orders, the anguish of people struggling to escape history - and to better understand themselves and their traditions.« less