Dana Grigorcea – författare

Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman's self-discovery. In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colourful pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together--a world bursting with character and spirit.

Now in paperback, a haunting story of trauma, memory, and healing in post-Cold War Romania.Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman’s self-discovery.  In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colorful pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together—a world bursting with character and spirit.

Winner of the Swiss Book Prize, Nominated for the German Book Prize.Dracula Park by Dana Grigorcea provides a perfect dose of supernatural and intrigue for fans of Horror and Gothic Fiction.After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, a young artist returns from Paris to the rural town of B., south of Transylvania, Romania. Despite its kitschy charm and quiet idyll, an undeniable shadow cloaks the town: the people around her are changing and a sinister aura looms behind B.’s sleepy demeanor.When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the family crypt of Prince Vlad the Impaler, infamously known as Dracula, this previously inexplicable tension and uncanny reaches its peak. With plans from the corrupt mayor to turn the crypt into a vampire-themed amusement park, B. is set for ruin, the haven it once was becoming lost in the desperate clutching of the past. Dana Grigorcea weaves themes of the supernatural, magical realism and Romanian folklore into this prize-winning, captivating tale of revenge, extremism and politics. Described by Frankfurter Rundschau as a ‘dreamy and rock-hard horror story’, Dracula Park's experimentalism with the realm of time, reality and fantasy encapsulates the social changes in a post-communist Romania.