OMA BOOKS

1980s: a teacher in Bucharest lives in a strange house and dreams of escape.

1935–44: a Jewish writer records Bucharest’s slide into fascism, day by day.

Paul Morand’s portrait of Bucharest, the “Paris of the East”.

An Englishman lives among the villagers and Roma of Transylvania and Maramureș.

1904–14: Transylvanian aristocrats gamble and love as their world nears its end.