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A darkly funny and deeply moving coming-of-age story set in Communist Romania
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A brilliant and uniquely energising read... you will love this book!' - Jennifer Croft, translator of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and author of The Extinction of Irena Rey Sharp, original and completely absorbing.' - Georgina Godwin, broadcaster and literary journalist Romania, 1989: a grey place of mysterious...
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Astronaut!
Dryly satirical, incredibly tense and deeply moving, ASTRONAUT! is both a detective novel and a coming-of-age tale set in Communist Romania in 1989
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A brilliant and uniquely energising read... you will love this book!' - Jennifer Croft, translator of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and author of The Extinction of Irena Rey
Sharp, original and completely absorbing.' - Georgina Godwin, broadcaster and literary journalist
Romania, 1989: a grey place of mysterious queues, ubiquitous informers and daily news flashes about a man-eating bear that is terrorising the country.
Amidst the daily drudge of work, rationing, and careful conversation with neighbours, two lives unexpectedly collide when an idealistic police detective, Constantin, is tasked with solving a string of grisly murders, and a rebellious school child, Lia, is unwittingly drawn into her elderly neighbour's seditious plot.
Dryly satirical, incredibly tense and deeply moving, ASTRONAUT! is both a detective novel and a coming-of-age tale, one with a perennially relevant message: the lies we accept today become the truths of tomorrow.
Praise for the work of Oana Aristide:
'Achingly believable, unsensational and chilling' - The Times
'A beautifully written, emotionally gripping book' - Guardian
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035420827
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wildfire
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Oana Aristide is a writer, travel journalist, macroeconomist and hotelier. She was born in Transylvania, to parents of Romanian, Greek and Yemeni background. After the fall of communism, the family emigrated to Sweden. She is the author of Under the Blue, one of Times' Books of the Year in 2021.
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