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Kasper Kramer J. Istorija, kotoruju nel'zja rasskazyvat'
Kasper Kramer J. Istorija, kotoruju nel'zja rasskazyvat'
| Author | Kasper Kramer J. |
| Title | Istorija, kotoruju nel'zja rasskazyvat' |
| Description | Romania, 1989. People live in constant fear: the dictator known as the Leader and the secret police, the Securitate, watch everyone, and any action against the authorities can lead to punishment. Reading banned books, watching banned films or listening to forbidden music is a serious offence. But the most dangerous thing of all is writing. For Ileana, however, there is nothing more exciting than inventing stories and recording them in a handmade book. There is never a shortage of material: she can retell something that happened at school, conversations she overhears between adults, or her favourite fairy tale about a clever princess.
Then one day Ileana’s uncle Andrei disappears. He is a poet who has published an anti-government poem. Ileana’s parents realise that something terrible may happen, so they send her into hiding in a remote mountain village with grandparents she has never met. There, far from the city where anyone might turn out to be a Securitate spy or informer, she should be safe. But when the enemy is everywhere, there may be nowhere to hide. Jessica Kasper Kramer’s remarkable debut novel portrays the frightening and tense final period of Romania’s dictatorship, shortly before the regime was overthrown, through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl. In 2022, the children’s jury of the Big Children’s Festival unanimously selected The Story That Cannot Be Told as the winner in the category Best Book for Older Children. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Samokat |
| Pages | 368 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 978-5-00167-080-3 |
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220.00 kr.