Real Fiction / Gabriel Rusu, translated by Constantin Istrate: (re)create your childhood

Unending summer holidays. Drinking soda in the mine yard. A 1st of June with with a campfire and gift packages from the National Company of Coal. Gheorghe Hagi. The World Championship of 1998. Dan Petrescu’s goal against England. My brother’s upright piano brushing against the co-op’s stairs. Fearlessly climbing through cherry trees. Splashing through the Jiu. Appendectomy. Adolescence. Mihaela, …