Carmen-Francesca Banciu is a Romanian-born author based in Berlin. An author before moving to Berlin, at the beginning of the 1990s, she started writing in German since 1996 and she is also a creative writing coach. Her books - novels and short stories - do receive positive reviews in the specialized literary sections in German, but I am still trying to define her audience and style.
Berlin ist mein Paris is a collection of stories and stanzas with an autobiographical inspiration, an angle which I actually appreciated. She is keen to share her authentic experiences, that in fact do relate to a larger human experience: finding your way into a new country, getting to know a new language, observing human relationships from the corners of coffees in different places across Berlin.
Indeed, this way of writing in a coffee, inspired by the stories heard and guessed is a great source of inspiration and Berlin is full of such stories. However, I´ve felt that the coffee places featured in those stories are relatively stereotypical in their customers variety, but everyone his or her sources of inspiration.
The stories do contain some interesting observations and do have their authentic flair as introducing new characters and sharing life stories from Berlin. Such experiences are usually subjective therefore it liking them or not it is also a purely subjective. My Berlin is definitely more dynamic and a recollection of way too many worlds although Paris for me is irreplaceable.
Rating: 3 stars
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