Eastern Europe in Translation - Book discussion with Monica Cure

Name: Eastern Europe in Translation - Book discussion with Monica Cure
Start: 2025-10-15T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Good Shepherd Center

Schedule

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Good Shepherd Center | Seattle, WA

📖Join us October 15th for a book signing and discussion with Romanian-American translator and poet Monica Cure.
She will present her most recent translation of "Too Great a Sky" a novel by Liliana Corobca, as well as the anthology "Cigarettes Until Tomorrow", with her translation of Adela Greceanu's poems.
✨A limited number of books will be available for sale.
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📌October 15 at 6pm
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Room 221
Seattle, WA 98103
📖TOO GREAT A SKY
The novel recounts the deportation of Romanians from Bucovina by the Soviets during World War II. It is an exercise in historical memory which demonstrates how to maintain humanity in impossible conditions. The story centers on Ana Baljinschi as she recounts her life to her great grand-daughter, told with unflinching candor. It is a chronicle of a life lived during a time of great political and national change, a story of an existence defined and curtailed by lines drawn on a map.
📖 CIGARETTES UNTIL TOMORROW
The poetry anthology features translations of poetry by eight contemporary Romanian poets, each by a different translator. With black humor and in cutting, contemporary language, the poets assemble a series of profound moments from their daily lives and explore themes of language, technology, and memory. Adela Greceanu’s poems, translated by Monica Cure, come from the collection Words Are Also a Province. The lyrical poems have a prose-like quality and are spoken or viewed through the subjectivity of Adila, the poet’s alter-ego, focusing on the marginalized, in life as well as language.