The wrestle between allegiance to family, friends, and government was also expertly crafted. Through this, the reality of the Cold War and how many people still live in the shadow of its consequences was driven home to me. So while Cristian is processing everyday life as a teenager, his narrative about civilians being under constant surveillance, poverty, propaganda, and torture, is filled with emotion. This story's historical and social accuracy is incredible – and the author’s ability to combine the narratives of witnesses, survivors, and experts is exceptional. In I Must Betray You, Sepetys gives an account of the events from the fictional perspective of 17-year-old Cristian. Survivors were left with physical, mental, and emotional trauma. And while dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu died on Christmas Day of the same year, it left 1000 Romanians dead, including 100 children. While other countries in the Warsaw Pact used civil resistance to overcome Communism, Romania’s revolution was marked by violence and ended horrifically and brutally. Set in Romania in 1989, this compelling novel tells the story of the last country in the Eastern Bloc to escape the grip of Communism. That was until I read Ruta Sepetys historical novel I Must Betray You. In reality, the fall of the USSR happened when I was one – but as a fourth-generation Australian born of English descent, this was intangible to me. Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys is back with a historical thriller that examines the little-known history of a nation defined by silence, pain, and the unwavering conviction of the human spirit.In this novelisation, New York Times best-selling author Ruta Sepetys recounts recent history about the 1989 Romanian Revolution.Īs a child of the 1990s, the Cold War seemed distant to me.
He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves-or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.Ĭristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream they are bound by rules and force.Īmidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe.
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