So while Cristian is processing everyday life as a teenager, his narrative about civilians being under constant surveillance, poverty, propaganda, and torture, is filled with emotion. This story's historical and social accuracy is incredible – and the author’s ability to combine the narratives of witnesses, survivors, and experts is exceptional. In I Must Betray You, Sepetys gives an account of the events from the fictional perspective of 17-year-old Cristian. Survivors were left with physical, mental, and emotional trauma. And while dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu died on Christmas Day of the same year, it left 1000 Romanians dead, including 100 children. While other countries in the Warsaw Pact used civil resistance to overcome Communism, Romania’s revolution was marked by violence and ended horrifically and brutally. Set in Romania in 1989, this compelling novel tells the story of the last country in the Eastern Bloc to escape the grip of Communism.
That was until I read Ruta Sepetys historical novel I Must Betray You. In reality, the fall of the USSR happened when I was one – but as a fourth-generation Australian born of English descent, this was intangible to me. In this novelisation, New York Times best-selling author Ruta Sepetys recounts recent history about the 1989 Romanian Revolution.Īs a child of the 1990s, the Cold War seemed distant to me.
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