The Romanian search for lost time. The great art of European storytelling in the 20th century. A classic, translated from Romanian into German for the first time. "The Lost Morning" encompasses tumultuous times. Its narrative spans the entire "short" 20th century. Its voices resonate through the decades: a panoramic story of an entire country unfolds, reflected in the experiences of people from all walks of life. From the language of the streets to the rhetoric of state propaganda, to the remnants of a bygone bourgeois culture, from streams of consciousness to brilliant dialogues, "The Lost Morning" navigates all registers of language. "The Lost Morning" is a novel about women and a novel about aging, where the happiness of the past is overshadowed from the very beginning by the misfortune of personal failure.