Reading programme, Chisinau Reads, launched in Moldova

Chisinau, 13 February /MOLDPRES/ - Three books have been included in the 16th issue if the reading programme, Chisinau Reads, launched at the Chisinau-based B.P. Hasdeu Municipal Library today.  

It is about the books, Prietenii mei dragi (My Dear Friends) by Eugen Doga, Un secret în Los Angeles (A Secret in Los Angeles) by Doina Postolachi and Grădina de sticlă (The Glass Garden) by Tatiana Tibuleac.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the director of the aforementioned library, Mariana Harjevschi, said that the goal of the programme was to promote and encourage the reading as means of cultural and creative development, turn to good account the Chisinau residents’ reading experience, reader’s orientation to the native literary and artistic values.   

According to Mariana Harjevschi, The Glass Garden by Tatiana Tibuleac is a novel which “can combine the observation with the compassion towards suffering, showing the tragedy of the destinies and beauty of life” and in the book, A Secret in Los Angeles, author Doina Postolachi makes its message as an invitation to dreaming and as an urge to the power to follow our dreams, to accept the dream as a dimension of our life. At the same time, Harjevschi noted that master Eugen Doga included in his book My Dear Friends two cycles of stories about two of his quadrupedal friends, which brought him moments of joy and tenderness, which can be proved only by animals, so sincerely and almost disinterestedly.      

At the event, composer Eugen Doga stressed that My Dear Friends was a book not only for children, but also for parents. “It is about a tomcat and a dog, i.e. about our love for domestic animals, which are often more sensitive, friendlier and more loyal than other beings. Sometimes, I think that, if I did not compose music, I would have written literature. Now, when I do not compose music, I am dealing with literature. I have recently presented another book,” Eugen Doga said.   

According to literary critic Maria Pilchin, the book by Tatiana Tibuleac, The Glass Garden, described the history of a girl from Moldova, adopted by a Russian-speaking woman. “This girl is educated in a split world, as she knows, on the one hand, that she is aboriginal and on the other hand – the language and culture of adoption, the great Russian culture and language. She is brought up between these two poles, tries to be fit, but she will choose to study at a school in the native language, for which she will tacitly be condemned by her adoptive mother and her entourage. Tamara Pavlovna is a woman doing money from collecting bottles. She loves her adoptive child quite strangely and she wants to necessarily leave her a marriage portion,” Maria Pilchin noted.      

The reading programme, Chisinau Reads, is held through those 27 branches of the B.P. Hasdeu Municipal Library from Chisinau and the results will be summed up in next November. The programme was launched in 2004.   

In 2018, diverse activities were organized within the Chisinau Reads programme: meetings with writers, presentations of publications, reading classes, literary shows, discussions, contests. As many as 556 activities with the public were carried out in all, in which 11,426 people participated. Another 2,706 participants in the programme had possibility to meet books’ authors at 64 activities.