![]() ![]() The Feminine Experience in Communism (Polirom, 2008, a volume coordinated together with Dan Lungu), Numele mierlei / The Name of the Blackbird (Polirom, 2008), Noapte bună, copii! / Good Night, Children! (Polirom, 2010 2017), Disco Titanic (Polirom, 2016), Străin în țară străină / An Alien in a Foreign Country (The West University in Timișoara Publishing House, Timișoara, 2017). ![]() Experienţa feminină în comunism / Road Companions. Mioritical Clichés (Polirom 2004 2006 2014), Fairia– o lume îndepărtată /Fairia – A Far Away World (Polirom, 2004 2016), DEX-ul şi sexul / The DEX and the Sex (Polirom, 2005 2016), Tovarăşe de drum. He is the author of Valea Cerului Senin / The Valley of the Clear Sky (Athena, 1997), Despre science fiction / On Science Fiction (Omnibooks, 2001 Tritonic, 2007), Adio, adio, patria mea cu î din i, cu â din a / A Farewell to Homeland (Polirom, 2003 2004 2013), Românii e deştepţi. ![]() Oravița, Romania, 1969) is a prolific novelist, essayist, and translator. ![]()
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