Greta's Passage - Tapa blanda

Greta’s Passage is a one-woman’s journey from a bucolic childhood in a remote little village in the far recesses of Eastern Europe at a time when Fascism was just beginning to consume the world to the height of glamour and sophistication that only Paris of the early 1960’s could offer. In time, Greta, though possessing very little formal education or social polish, proves to be a skillful study. Her education starts when she moves with her family to the big, cosmopolitan city of Bucharest, known at that time, with its wide avenues and Beaux-Arts architecture, as the Paris of Eastern Europe. As her life experiences expand, through marriage, sex, motherhood, and even love, she sheds her naïve persona to embark on an ambitious pursuit of worldliness. The world of the fashionable rich, which she reluctantly enters, shuns her at first, but as her unique powers of observation and imitation become ever more evident, she quickly gains.