Summary of The Town with Acacia Trees
âThe Town with Acacia Treesâ centres on Adriana and Gelu, a young couple growing up in a provincial Romanian town during the 1930s. The novel beautifully describes how Adriana and Gelu fall in love, but when Adriana moves to Bucharest and meets the composer Cello, her love for Gelu is put to the test.
Reasons to read The Town with Acacia Trees
âThe Town with Acacia Treesâ is a coming-of-age story about a young woman discovering love in Romania in the interwar period. Music plays an important role in this novel, as well as the contrast between modern city life in Bucharest and traditional life in a provincial town. The English translation of âThe Town with Acacia Treesâ by Gabi Reigh received a PEN Translates Award in 2019. Mihail Sebastian, a Romanian novelist and playwright, also wrote the novels âFor Two Thousand Yearsâ and âThe Accidentâ. His journals, published as âJournal 1935-1944â, offer a testimony to the antisemitism in Eastern Europe before and during WWII.
Setting: BrÄila (Romania)
Book set in Romania: Bucharest; the provincial town referred to as âD.â in the novel is widely considered to be BrÄila, the authorâs hometown.
Original title: OraČul cu salcâmi
Year of publication: 1935
Nr of pages: 224
