Migrating into Books, review
The review
Jurnal de pusta, written by Borco Ilin is an unpretentious, almost spoken book, whose advice tone sometimes makes you feel like having a beer with an old childhood friend found in your adult years.
The book is also a transition of emotions and states from the perfectly described bucolic childhood, to the phases of adulthood, personal demons, initiatory journeys, but also of survival abroad and lasting or passing loves that come together with the author’s self-search.
From the author’s perspective, as a prince and a beggar, familiar with the Banat ghettos, but also with the unyielding nature of the Mureș plain, the book is as alive as the experiences described: from illness, to occupational migration, destiny and abuses of all kinds, but also about simplicity and the vocation of being human.
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