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sorana gurian
Born Sara Gurfinckel into a Jewish family in Comrat, Bessarabia (Moldova), Sorana Gurian (1913-56) was a novelist and journalist who wrote in French and Romanian.
She spent three years in France before WWII and after returning to Bucharest, she joined the anti-Fascist underground during the war, hiding in a basement
for two years (being hunted by the Gestapo) with the help of a Catholic priest. After the war, she collaborated with
leftist publications for a few years, but by 1949 the hardline Communist regime was suspecting her of being a French spy. She fled to Paris, and after a brief stay
in Israel in 1949-51, officially emigrated to France, where she died from cancer.
Her final book, Récit d'un combat in 1956,
recounted her desperate search for cancer treatment, her thirst for life
never waning.
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published by TSP
Episodes between
Twilight and Darkness
[forthcoming 2027]
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