Astronaut!: A Novel

A tense, darkly funny, and politically resonant novel of life under authoritarian rule.

Romania, 1989, the twilight of Ceausescu's dictatorship: A time when every neighbor, every friend, every family member may be an informant for the regime. When news emerges of a maneating bear terrorizing the country, two bright lives collide. Constantin, an idealistic police detective-prone to daydreaming and scribbling fairytales in his notebook for his four-year-old son-is tasked with solving the strin...