Dumitru Tsepeneag's "Pigeon Post" - Words Without Borders
Dumitru Tsepeneag’s “Pigeon Post” Dalkey Archive Press, 2008 The term "pigeon post" refers to the use of homing pigeons to deliver messages. Perhaps the best known was the French Pigeon Post of the Franco-Prussian War in the late nineteenth century, which allowed messages to travel into Paris across Prussian lines, representing a fluidity between an otherwise rigid divide of East and West. The sometimes difficult task of crossing borders and disseminating information informs the underlying tension of Romanian writer Dumitru Tsepeneag's novel , translated by Jane Kuntz. Tsepeneag was fo...
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