Coming from an Off-Key Time: A Novel (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
A nostalgic chronicle of Bucharest, gliding between the eccentric and the exceptional, between the clownish and the metaphysical, the apocryphal gospel of a world with far too many saviours, but incapable of redemption. --Sanda Cordos, Vatra, 2006Suceava has captured the chaos on the page, compressing and transferring an impressive quantity of Romania's present and its lengthy and complicated past into a narrative that remains cohesive and effective. -D. Kelleher, Quarterly Conversation, 2011The main question is common to all Eastern European societies: why breaking free from the constraints under which it lived for so many years can cause a society to lose its mind? --István Csuhai, Élet és Irodalom (Hungary), 2009...much of the appeal of the novel comes from how much it is of a specific time and place... an excellent example of what a foreign reader might hope for in a specifically 'contemporary Romanian novel' --M.A.Orthofer, Complete Review, 2011...this novel may be the first to describe Romania's difficult transition to democracy in persuasive terms. --Jean Harris, Absinthe: New European Writing, 2010very captivating and suspenseful… we are under the impression that we’ve taken a ride in a house of distorted mirrors, and what ending can beat the fun of such a ride?--Daniela Hurezanu, Open Letters Monthly, 2011