Domnica Radulescu has authored and edited numerous books, collections and articles. She won Romania's National Prize for Short Story Writing when she was just 17 years old before fleeing the country during Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship. She came to the United States in 1983, where she is now a professor of French and Italian Literature and Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. She is the author of two novels, TRAIN TO TRIESTE and BLACK SEA TWILIGHT, the first of which won the Library of Virginia Award for Best Fiction. She lives in Lexington, Virginia with her two sons.

Books by Domnica Radulescu

Country of Red Azaleas

by Domnica Radulescu - Fiction

From the moment Marija walks into Lara's classroom, freshly moved to Serbia from Sarajevo, Lara is enchanted by her vibrant beauty, confidence and wild energy. Closer than sisters, the girls share everything. But when the Bosnian War pits their homelands against each other in a bloodbath, Lara and Marija are forced to separate for the first time. In America, Lara seeks fulfillment through work and family, but when news from Marija ceases, the uncertainty torments Lara, driving her on a quest to find her friend. As Lara travels through war-torn Serbia and Bosnia, she must also wrestle with truths about her own identity.