This page-turning thriller is made all the more poignant and tragic through the knowledge that millions of ordinary Romanians lived through nightmarish situations like his. Threatened with charges of treason and promised medication to help his beloved, ailing grandfather, Cristian agrees to betray friends and family and become an informer for the Securitate, Romania’s secret police. 1), she focuses on Cristian Florescu, a teenage Romanian boy living during the final days of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s brutal communist dictatorship in the late 1980s. In her fifth novel, I Must Betray You (Philomel, Feb. It’s no surprise that international bestselling author Ruta Sepetys has won awards for riveting, emotionally arresting historical fiction that spotlights moments in history that most young readers know little about.
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