A writer retraces her childhood through Romania's secret police records on her family

The World | Apr 21, 2014
As writer Carmen Bugan grew up with dissident parents in communist Romania, the family's every conversation was recorded by the secret police. She has now read the thousands of pages of documents and traveled back to Romania with her family to tell their story.

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