Can we flee from our own history? Leave behind everything that makes us who we are and start again? What's happening in the process?
1986: the violinist Bela Tambrea makes a difficult decision. In order to give his family a better life, he does not return to Romania after a concert tour. Two years later, Sabin, his sister Alina and his mother, also a talented violinist, are allowed to follow him to Germany - shortly before the Ceaucescu regime collapses in bloodshed. But what does it mean to leave everything behind and start a new life?
Bestselling author Sabin Tambrea tells the story of his Romanian-Hungarian family through the eyes of three generations: the boy Sabin, his father Bela and his grandfather Horea. A novel about new beginnings, hardship and powerlessness in the face of a merciless political system, about the consequences of injustice, the consequences of decisions and a tender love story. The story of his parents.
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