A deeply compelling tale of a woman caught inside the destruction of a Communist regime.
'A VERY PERSONAL STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS... PALPITATINGLY TOLD... THIS IS AN EXCELLENT READ.' Morning Star
'... VIVID IMAGES, LIVELY CHARACTER STUDIES, A PORTRAIT OF A BRUTAL, CONTROLLING REGIME.' Historical Novel Society
'SARGENT'S DEPICTION OF IORDANA CEAUSESCU RESTORES HER AS A LUMINESCENT AND RESILIENT WHOLE SET AGAINST A TURBULENT BACKGROUND.' Midwest Book Review
Iordana is a normal girl, brought up with all the perks of Romania's corrupt communist regime. Then she falls in love and marries the eldest son of her parents' arch-rival, Romania's monstrous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. They become the in-laws from hell, but she brings them their only grandson. And then there's the 1989 revolution, when crowds will kill anyone with the Ceausescu name. In all the blood and chaos, can Iordana keep her little son alive?
Drawn from eighty hours of unique interviews and told in Iordana's own voice; this true-life tale spins readers into the pleasures, excesses and horrors of late twentieth-century Europe.
Autorentext
Colin Sargent is the founding editor and publisher of the award-winning Portland Magazine in Maine, USA. Colin teaches Creative Writing at William & Mary in Williamsburg and is the author of Museum of Human Beings and The Boston Castrato, currently optioned for film by Gideon Films. He has a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University and has also written 3 collections of poetry. Colin edited Approach Magazine, the US Navy's international flying magazine, whose contributors included Tom Wolfe.
Klappentext
Red Hands is a deeply compelling tale of a woman caught inside the destruction of a Communist regime. Iordana is a normal girl, brought up with all the perks of Romania's corrupt government. Then she falls in love and marries the eldest son of her parents' arch-rival, Romania's monstrous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. They become the in-laws from hell, but she brings them their only grandson. And then there's the 1989 revolution, when crowds will kill anyone with the Ceausescu name. In all the blood and chaos, can Iordana keep her little son alive?
Drawn from eighty hours of unique interviews and told in Iordana's own voice; this true-life tale spins readers into the pleasures, excesses and horrors of late twentieth-century Europe.
'An astonishing work, brilliantly told. In Iordana Ceausescu, Colin Sargent has given us a fascinating window into the brutal regime of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and their near destruction of Romania. A cautionary tale for our times.' - Nancy Schoenberger, author of The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
'Red Hands is uniquely unsettling and a standout read... a page-turner fuelled by intrigue, blind greed, and staggering accuracy.' - Victoria Rowell, author of The Women Who Raised Me
'A fascinating look at Romania - now a staunch NATO ally - as it emerges from the Cold War. Centred on the story of a close relative of feared dictator Ceausescu, it provides a uniquely human frame to the dangerous turbulence of that dynamic and complex period in Eastern Europe.' - Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (2009-2013)