Auntie Varvara's Clients

Auntie Varvara's Clients brings to life documents discovered in the archives of the pre-communist secret police, the Siguranta (nicknamed 'Auntie Varvara'). This extensive work reveals a regime reliant on secrecy. The narrative changes tense unannounced, givinga surreal, filmic quality to the writing. Tanase takes us from the early days of illegal membership of the communist underground, at the end of the First World War, to the eventual rise to power and the struggle for supremacy within the regime.