Out of the transylvania night is a deeply moving account of one womans search for her own identity firstly under the communist dictatorship of the ruthlessly oppressive ceausescu and later as she struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of overwhelming materialism the memoir opens in the dying days of the ceausescu regime as the local romanian citizenry decide to fight back after decades of misrule. Out of the transylvania night is a compelling and spelling binding story of a fiercely independent young woman growing up at the height of worldwide communist power and then the rapid fall of the iron curtain we must never forget what her story ultimately teaches. Out of the transylvania night is the story of auras life growing up in transylvania romania romania is known for dracula vlad the impaler and the communist dictator nicolae ceausescu aura was a teen during ceausescus rein of power. Out of the transylvania night aura imbarus part i the transylvania night then you shall live up there where the stench shall not reach you prince vlad ii draculea to a servant made ill by the stench of thousands of impaled men women and children the servant was subsequently impaled 1 the eyes of sibiu. The trees on my street had grown microphones among the ten million microphones that bloomed the whole of romania is the monumental sentiment that conspicuously marks the beginning paragraph of this epic novel out of the transylvania night by aura imbarus part i 1 from the words of this line a reader can easily depict horror grief and tame the key characteristics of the major theme in