Publisher's Synopsis
"This nation has spirit and guts!" From the chapter, Thank You Romania
It's a collection of stories about travelling, politics, history, revolution, architecture, books, and people."Rupert Wolfe Murray has been working and living, off and on, in Romania for three decades, and his comments and judgements on the country and its people are incisive and accurate. This collection of miscellaneous journalism spans quite a period of time, but has been updated slightly, with postscripts to add context, and it all hangs together well, showing just how this strange country works, and why he and so many of us have come to love it."
TIM BURFORD,
AUTHOR OF THE ROUGH GUIDE TO ROMANIA AND THE BRADT GUIDE TO TRANSYLVANIA
"Rupert Wolfe Murray shows the gains and losses of the generation that moved from communism to the EU. Personal, deeply felt and properly informed. For Romanians, a look at their country through kind but unsentimental eyes; for others, a revelation about an emerging European treasure."
ARABELLA MCINTYRE BROWN,
MIGRANT, AUTHOR & RESIDENT IN TRANSYLVANIA