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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Motto
Sarajevo, My Love: 1980–1985
Belgrade Revolutions: 1989–1992
Washington, DC. Immigrant Life: 1992–1998
Washington, DC, and Belgrade. Revelations: 1998–2000
Provence and Paris, France. Country of Lies: 2001–2003
Washington, DC. The Truth: Spring 2003
Washington, DC. The Truth and Everything but the Truth: Summer 2003
Belgrade and Sarajevo: Thanksgiving 2003
Washington, DC. Attempting Peace: December 2003
Washington, DC. War and Negotiations: Winter 2004
We Won’t Always Have Paris: April 2004
Los Angeles. We’ll Always Have Hollywood!: April 2004
The Wild West: May 2004
Country of Red Azaleas: Summer 2004
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Domnica Radulescu
Bibliography
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2016 by Domnica Radulescu
Cover design by Grace Han
Cover photo © Dorit Guenter / Gallery Stock
Cover copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.
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The excerpt from “heart heart heart” by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu is reprinted from I Scrape the Window of Nothingness: New & Selected Poems (Orison Books, 2015), copyright © 2015 by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, with permission of Orison Books, Inc.
Names: Radulescu, Domnica, 1961- author.
Title: Country of red azaleas / Domnica Radulescu.
Description: First edition. | New York : Twelve, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044687 | ISBN 9781455590421 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781478964483 (audio download) | ISBN 9781455590438 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Female friendship—Fiction. | Self-realization in women—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Contemporary women. | FICTION / Coming of Age.Classification: LCC PS3618.A358 C68 2016 | DDC 813/ .6—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015044687
ISBNs: 978-1-4555-9042-1 (hardcover), 978-1-4555-9043-8 (ebook)
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