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MITKO'S STORY: (A MAN MOULDED BY HIS TIMES)
Debra Carter was an experienced Ghost writer.
She knew better than to get involved in a client's life.
But she had not reckoned with the Sibiu family. Mitko was into his nineties when she started to tell his story.
With an English mother and a Romanian father, he had mixed loyalties.Could she avoid sinking into the family's shady dealings of the present.Or the wartime secrets the family feared becoming open facts.
She knew better than to get involved in a client's life.
But she had not reckoned with the Sibiu family. Mitko was into his nineties when she started to tell his story.
With an English mother and a Romanian father, he had mixed loyalties.Could she avoid sinking into the family's shady dealings of the present.Or the wartime secrets the family feared becoming open facts.
265 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 8, 2019
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July 22, 2019
Not so much a war story as a psychological thriller and an enjoyable read.
Nurtured on the gallantry, courage and self-sacrifice of French wartime resistance fighters, the switch to German occupied Romania during WW2 attracted me to buy this book. But it is not a war story; it is much more than that.
Ninety-three year old Mitko Sibiu, a man moulded by his times, wished to recount the story of his life from the time when everything changed for him when he was a fourteen year old farm boy in Romania under German occupation.
He hired ghost-writer, Debra Carter to collate his memories into book form for publication in the tranquillity of suburban England.
Debra Carter was never quite certain what she had got herself into or how to describe Sibiu. Is he a war hero, a smuggler, a gangster, usurer, legitimate businessman or a mixture of them all? From the outset, the arrival of the police to investigate Mitko Sibiu’s clandestine activities immersed her in his story and she became, in many ways, it's central figure. Home on school holidays, her teenage son Mickey also becomes actively involved in the events and the hero of the climax.
This is a first novel by an able storyteller. It bears the hallmarks of a first novel with, perhaps, more than a usual amount of proof reading errors that the pace of the piece allows the reader to pass over without becoming distracted. I liked it enough to award it four stars.
Nurtured on the gallantry, courage and self-sacrifice of French wartime resistance fighters, the switch to German occupied Romania during WW2 attracted me to buy this book. But it is not a war story; it is much more than that.
Ninety-three year old Mitko Sibiu, a man moulded by his times, wished to recount the story of his life from the time when everything changed for him when he was a fourteen year old farm boy in Romania under German occupation.
He hired ghost-writer, Debra Carter to collate his memories into book form for publication in the tranquillity of suburban England.
Debra Carter was never quite certain what she had got herself into or how to describe Sibiu. Is he a war hero, a smuggler, a gangster, usurer, legitimate businessman or a mixture of them all? From the outset, the arrival of the police to investigate Mitko Sibiu’s clandestine activities immersed her in his story and she became, in many ways, it's central figure. Home on school holidays, her teenage son Mickey also becomes actively involved in the events and the hero of the climax.
This is a first novel by an able storyteller. It bears the hallmarks of a first novel with, perhaps, more than a usual amount of proof reading errors that the pace of the piece allows the reader to pass over without becoming distracted. I liked it enough to award it four stars.
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