A Story That Cannot Be Told. Kramer, J. Casper

Romania, 1989. People live in constant fear—the dictator-leader and the Securitate secret police watch everyone, and any action against the government can be punished. Reading banned books, watching banned films, listening to banned music—a serious crime. And the most dangerous thing of all is writing. But for Ilyana, nothing is more exciting than inventing stories and writing them in a handmade book. She never runs out of ideas: she can retell an incident at school, conversations she overhears among adults, or her favorite fairy tale about a clever princess.
But one day Ilyana’s Uncle Andrei disappears—a poet who published an anti-government poem. Ilyana’s parents realize that something terrible might happen. They hide her in a remote mountain village with grandparents she has never met. There, far from the city, where anyone could be a spy or an informer for the Securitate, she will be safe. But when the enemy is everywhere, there is nowhere to hide…
Jessica Casper Kramer’s incredible debut novel depicts the terrifying and unsettling period of Romania’s dictatorship on the eve of the regime’s downfall through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl.
For middle and older school-aged readers.

Author: Jessica Casper Kramer
Translator: Alyona Shcherbakova
Publisher: Samokat
Genre: Children’s Novellas and Short Stories
ISBN: 978-5-00167-080-3
Pages: 368 (Typeset) 
Design
Weight: 512 g
Dimensions: 206x149x30 mm