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This novel is an opportunity to see a world full of prejudice and ignorance through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old. Many of the facts are real, but for personal reasons, the author has used fictitious names and places. The story takes place in Romania during the communist period, and most of the situations reflect a dark side of the underground life which the totalitarian regime of that time tried to hide. The author discovered a thread of events that he followed, driven by curiosity, and then he tried, through the naivety of his age, to depict it in a mature and dramatic way. Beyond the psychological exaggerations of the author, you will discover a bygone world of human ignorance and indifference in an outmoded and morally rotten society.

The author grew up in an environment poor in feelings and experiences, as was expected for a communist society. He became a teenager imprisoned in complexity. In his loneliness, he discovered literature and found a way to satisfy his desires to think and feel. These experiences would later perfect his character and, by default, his literary tendencies. Although the novel is based on actual events, the author modified the events in the characters' lives. There is such a range of experiences, many of them complex and twisted, that the author lived through during adolescence, when he wrote the novel. The author was born and raised in the capital of Romania, and he grew up in a modest family and society, as did all under communism. He continued to have a modest life until after adolescence when, after being releases from the constraints of communism, he rediscovered himself in a free society in which he could discard the sadness he had repressed.