Train to Trieste

It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no one else. But life under Ceausescu's Romania is difficult. Hunger, paranoia and fear infect everyone. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? As food shortages worsen and more of her loved ones disappear, Mona comes to understand that she must leave Romania. She escapes in secret - narrowly avoiding the police - through Yugoslavia to Italy, and finally to Chicago. But she leaves without saying a final goodbye to Mihai. And though she struggles to bury her longing for the past, many years later she finds herself compelled to return, determined to learn the truth.

ISBN 055277474X   Pages 400 ISBN13 9780552774741 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 266 Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd   Published in London Imprint Black Swan   Height (mm) 196 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 127 Publication date 13 Aug 2009   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 813.6   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

 Be the first to write a customer review