Tabula Rasa: Beyond a Place Called There...

by Zoltan Powell

In the early years of Zoltan Powell’s life, he lived for nearly nine years in a Romanian orphanage. With tears and laughter, despair and hope, you will read Zoltan’s vivid depiction of his personal journey as he shares his personal struggles of being a young boy caught in the circumstances of life within a communist institution.

181 pages, Paperback

Published April 20, 2020

Reviews

[Michaela Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Zoltan’s memoir of being in a Communist Orphanage is on the level of “The Nickel Boys” and “Before we were yours.” A Holocaust in an Orphanage , these children were treated no better. The atrocity of what was done to Zoltan and the others in this hell hole of what was called an Orphanage. How in this day and age was this ever allowed to happen in the world we know. How he makes it out of the filth of living in urine and feces and the monumental beatings and how he kept hope that he would someday would be adopted. It is a book that gives hope, a child beaten to almost death, starved, living in absolute filth who comes to America and ends up graduating from Miami University. Can’t wait for the prequel and sequel as this journey of this young man needs to be told and heard!

[Abigail Reiner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read of a orphans life

Wonderfully written enlightening look into the adoptee from a Romanians life. Very very very different as in the perspective and memories of a boy while in the orphanage.

[Andi Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

The true story of a brave little boy leading a horrific life in a Romanian orphanage. I am so grateful that Zoltan took the time to share his story and I hope you will take the time to read it.