A story that cannot be told. Kramer Kasper, Jessica

Romania, 1989. People live in constant fear-the Dictator Leader, the Secret Police of the Second University monitor everyone, and for any actions against the authorities you can get punishment. Read forbidden books, watch forbidden films, listen to forbidden music - a serious crime. And the most dangerous here is to write. But there is nothing more fascinating for Ilyany than to invent stories and write them down in a home -made book. There are always enough plots: you can retell the case of school, adult conversations or a favorite fairy tale about the cunning princess.

But once, Uncle Ilyana Andrey, a poet who published an anti -government poem disappears. Ilyana parents understand: trouble can happen. And they hide her in a distant village in the mountains, among her grandparents, whom she had never seen in her life. There, away from the city, where everyone can turn out to be a spy and a scammer of the second -Umoritate, it will be safe. But when the enemy is everywhere, it is impossible to hide...

The incredible debut novel by Jessica Kasper Kramer shows the terrible and alarming period of the Romanian dictatorship on the eve of the overthrow of the regime through the eyes of a ten -year -old girl.

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