karpatenflecken

KARPATENFLECKEN places three women from three generations at the centre of a historical panorama originating in a small region in the Wooded Carpathians of Romania. Grandmother, daughter and granddaughter cross political, geographical and linguistic boundaries as they race through the history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Thomas Perle has written an unsentimental work that is comfortable with many languages, including one that has almost faded into obscurity.