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When Yugoslavia's Yugo invaded the U.S. in 1985, Americans got their first chance to test the workmanship of a Communist automaker. The reaction so far has been lukewarm, but now another East European country is preparing an assault on the U.S. market. Auto-Dacia, Rumania's state-run car company, plans to introduce its Oltcit, Aro and Dacia models this spring. That could start a price war among comrades. The Oltcit, a three-door hatchback, will go for $3,980 -- $10 less than the cost of a Yugo...
...Dacia Revisited. Rumania has always been Eastern Europe's odd man out. Cupped impregnably within the broad U of the Carpathians, it long ago became a repository for recalcitrance and resistance to outside influence. Its original inhabitants, the Daci, fought as archers from horseback against...
...Malaise, replete with an enticing picture of author Dacia Maraini on the dust jacket, comes highly recommended. Written by an Italian girl in her mid-twenties, this novel of the "young, postwar generation" won the second annual $10,000 Formentor Prize, an award established by thirteen publishers in as many countries to encourage and publicize young writing. Each of the thirteen houses, including Grove Press of the United States, will publish Miss Maraini's work in its own country...
...Rempart des Beguines, Belgium's Franchise Mallet-Joris, at 20, documented a listless daughter's love affair with her father's mistress. The trend may have reached a climax with The Age of Malaise, a novel about a teenage girl in Rome written by Dacia Maraini, 25. Awarded the $10,000 Formentor publishers' prize for some reason not decipherable in the book itself, the novel has now been released simultaneously by 13 publishers in 13 countries...