![]() ![]() Our protagonist is Cristian, a seventeen year old with big ambitions. While I ultimately enjoyed the book, I have to say that I thought its morality to not be as complex as I would have liked, and its messaging was particularly unsubtle in a number of ways. This is one teenager’s story of life in Communist Romania towards the end of the 1980s - how bad the conditions were, brainwashing and propaganda from the government, how everyone was incentivised to spy on each other for some minimal profit, that sort of thing. Here’s something I’m not sure I would have picked up had it not been recommended to me by a co-worker. But risks invite harsh consequences, and soon Cristian finds himself tangled in a web he cannot escape… He wants the world to know what is happening in his home, to his people. ![]() But Cristian doesn’t want to stay silent any more. ![]()
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