Book-event, People, facts, places, the generous proposal of Minuna Mateiaș, opens a new and fertile perspective on the need to recover the collective memory of Romanian society, distorted, to the point of mystification and even cancellation, by the communist political and ideological system. In the three decades of post-communism, expert researchers, genuine intellectuals and art creators passionate about the truth have undertaken efforts crowned with remarkable results in restoring the system of moral, material and spiritual values that have consecrated Craiova as a space of national, Romanian relevance, as Bănie, the second capital of Wallachia! Proposing us a brief, but very dense and documented history of the oldest cemetery of Craiova, the "Sineasca" Cemetery, the first of its kind for our space, Minuna Mateiaș, capitalizing on her life-long experience as an expert in heritage values, not only helps us rebuild the framework of values that gave coherence and substance to our evolution towards modernity, but also opens other perspectives of knowledge, motivating civil society, still frail, but with a vigorous tradition in the pre-war period, to work to accelerate the integration of our potential in today's world competition. A ground-breaking work, a true challenge to the intelligent reader, capable of understanding that you cannot have a future without a past, the book makes for an engaging and instructive read in equal measure! Nicolae Marinescu
