本書為 Ruta Sepetys(《Salt to the Sea》《Between Shades of Gray》作者)最新歷史小說,以1989年羅馬尼亞為背景,描寫一名被迫成為告密者的少年如何在恐懼與良知之間掙扎。十七歲的 Cristian 夢想成為作家,卻被秘密警察勒索,必須出賣身邊的人,或冒險揭露獨裁政權的真相。當革命的風聲漸起,他決心用文字與行動對抗沉默的暴政。Sepetys 以細膩筆觸還原極權下的生活壓力與人性的光亮,寫出自由代價的痛與勇氣。A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray.Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.Cr