Книга: Train to Trieste

Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a boy who lives in the mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing else. But life under Nicolae Ceausescu is difficult - hunger, paranoia and fear infect everyone and Mona comes to understand that she must leave Romania. She escapes in secret without saying a final goodbye to Mihai. It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them?