Ready to go

Everything is packed and it’s now time to tell you what I decided that I’d be reading on the plane. I picked a Romanian author-ess - Sofia Nădejde. This was my initial idea, but when I noticed the length of the novel, I started to have doubts. However, I’ll have plenty of time to read on my way to the airport, at the airport, and on the plane, and then at the airport, on the plane, and on my way home.

‘Patimi’ (Sufferings), published in 1903 - the novel that I’ll be reading - is considered to be the first piece of feminist literature in Romania. As outlined in the blurb…

‘Often dramatic, sometimes crude, often relishing, Patimi is a novel about love, money, inherited land, morals and religion, xenophobia, women and their statute, about family and traditional values, but also about the new values, about exploitation, capitalism and the dawn of a world that was soon going to disintegrate in the tranches of the Great War.’

I read a bit of the introduction and I’m already very intrigued. Something tells me it will be similar to classical Russian novels. We’ll see!