by Panaït Istrati · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246133032
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«Les chardons du Baragan» is the coming-of-age novel by Panaït Istrati, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (207 pages, in French).
The novel follows a twelve-year-old boy who travels with his father across the plains of Wallachia selling salted, dried fish. After being left alone, he roams the Romanian countryside with a friend and discovers the misery, traditions and legends of an oppressed people, on the eve of the 1907 revolt.
Les chardons du Baragan was originally published in 1928; this edition belongs to the Les Cahiers Rouges collection.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and twentieth-century Romanian literature.
Panait Istrati (Romanian: [panaˈit isˈtratʲ]; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati appears to be the first Romanian author explicitly depicting a homosexual character in his work.
