Extremely beautiful and touching black-and-white photos from Romania's last communist years and the transition period that followed. I keep browsing through it and I am amazed by the talent of the photographer and the history encompassed in the photos. I'd be over the moon if I put my hands on the first volume!

This volume is "an amalgam of images that attempt to capture scenes from life back then, ranging from the tavern to the hospital ward, from the circus to national service, from the flea markets to the muddy streets of towns under construction, from glue sniffers to Hawks of the Homeland at communist nursery school, from factories to luxury hotels and entertainments for foreign tourists, from gypsy camps to queues for meat and gas canisters, from factory canteens to holiday resorts." ( )