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Mother&#;s Day: Song of a Sad Mother

Wednesday, September 14,
Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m.

In this talk, German-Romanian author Carmen-Francesca Banciu will read from and speak about her novel, Mother&#;s Day: Song of a Sad Mother.

Part &#;bildungsroman,&#; part autobiographical memoir, Mother&#;s Day explores mother-daughter relations under the communist dictatorship in Romania and sparks dynamic questions about Eastern Europe, work, the woman artist, and women&#;s relationships with one another.

This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation and the Department of German.

Biography (provided by the speaker)

Carmen-Francesca Banciu was born in Lipova, Romania and studied Byzantine art and foreign trade in Bucharest.

As a result of being awarded the International Short Story Award of the City of Arnsberg for the story &#;Das strahlende Ghetto&#; (“The Radiant Ghe