Ruta SepetysHistorical Fiction · Young Adult·b. 1967
I Must Betray You
Synopsis
In October 1989, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is an artist and a dreamer living under the suffocating grip of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime in Bucharest. When his mother is arrested for her quiet defiance against the state, he becomes entangled with a clandestine network of dissidents fighting to expose the truth about their lives — until he discovers that someone close to him may be an informer.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10