5/25/2023 0 Comments I must betray you by ruta sepetys![]() ![]() The family must whisper in their apartment, they must hide all their true thoughts and feelings or risk imprisonment or death. He must to do "mandatory volunteerism" on his days off and when he finishes school he will be assigned a menial job for the rest of his life.īut there is more, there are spies and bugs everywhere, even the family's apartment, even the bathroom is not safe. Cristian's parents work six days a week, twelve hours a day, while Cristian goes to school until 7pm six days a week. ![]() He and his family of five live in a tiny one bedroom apartment, Cristine sleeps in a closet, there is never enough food and they must stand in line for hours to get the tiniest bits of it. Now Cristian knows that this is all there is, nothing to look forward to, nothing will change unless it gets worse although there is not much worse than what they are living. In 1989, seventeen year old Cristian Florescu has never known anything else but the spirit and life crushing existence under this regime but from his grandfather he knows that things used to be so much better. ![]() While I knew some of what went on in Romania during the tyrannical twenty four year rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, I wasn't aware of the details that we get from this story. ![]()
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