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A novel telling the true story of Nadia Comăneci, icon of a lost age.
Montreal 1976. A fourteen-year-old girl steps out onto the middle of the floor at the Montreal Forum and into history. Twenty seconds on the uneven bars is all it takes for Nadia Comăneci, the slight, unsmiling child from Communist Romania, to etch herself into the collective memory. The electronic scoreboard, as astonished as the spectators, shows 1.00. The judges have awarded an unprecedented perfect ten, the first in Olympic gymnastics.
In The Little Communist Who Never Smiled, Lola Lafon tells the true story of Comăneci’s journey from rural Romania to her eventual defection to the United States in 1989.
Adored by young girls in the West and appropriated as a political emblem by the Ceaușescu regime, Comăneci’s life was scrutinised wherever she went. Lafon’s novel is a powerful re-imagining of a childhood in the spotlight of history, politics and destiny.
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