We Wait For You: Unheard Voices from Post-Communist Romania

by Annabelle Townson

Overview

We Wait for You chronicles the lives of average citizens in Post-Ceausescu Romania. Seen through the eyes of Annabelle Townson, an American Peace Corps volunteer in Romania from 2001-2003, this personal memoir offers a fascinating and timely account of the aftermath of the fall of Communism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761832423
Publisher:	Hamilton Books
Publication date:	10/12/2005
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.52(w) x 8.88(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Annabelle Townson specializes in Romanian, Ukrainian, and Moldovan affairs at the Peace Corps's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Historic Origins Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 In the Beginning Chapter 5 Observations and Revelations Chapter 6 Unheard Voices Speak Chapter 7 Their Ordinary Lives Chapter 8 A Different View Chapter 9 Two Cultures Chapter 10 We Too Are Unique Chapter 11 In the End Chapter 12 Epilogue Chapter 13 Personal Profile

Editorial Reviews

This is a fine book. ...Townson seems genuinely inclined to steer away from Western paternalisms. While she observes and explicates the social and political weaknesses she encountered in Romania, she discovers in the hearts and minds of the people she now knows as friends many values, traditions, and intellectual gifts that Americans and others in the West have either misplaced or never knew. ...for those scholars who wish to look beyond a bricks and mortar study of Romanian culture, this poignant unleashing of Romanian voices will be a welcomed addition to the field.

Religion and Society In Central and Eastern Europe

Ms. Townson's first book has effectively succeeded in capturing the duality of her Romanian experience—despair over the moral and spiritual state of the society paralleled by deep affection for the people.

Joseph E. Persico