Smuggled

Name: Smuggled
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Christina Shea
ISBN: 9781501984303

Author: Christina Shea

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/05/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Christina Shea follows up her compelling debut novel with an intimate look at the effects of history on an individual life. Smuggled out of Hungary to escape the Nazi menace, five-year-old Eva Farkas now lives with her aunt and uncle in Romania. Renamed Anca Balaj, she's told to forget her Hungarian past and language and accept a new identity. But when communism smothers her adopted homeland, Anca fights to survive. After the Iron Curtain lifts decades later, she returns to Hungary in 1990, hoping to reclaim her forgotten heritage.

Reviews

Goodreads review by RKanimalkingdom

There is something very clever about the way Christina Shea wrote this book. Upon reflection I realized that Shea had managed to take what would have been a con and turned it into a pro. This is a very tough book as it deals with a topic and goes down a very different path that most authors avoid. Ye......more

Goodreads review by Irene

"...From the bottom of the sack she looked up at her mother's face, a grave moon. Mama! But she shouldn't speak or cry out. She must hide herself. She carefully pulled her broken hand out of its sleeve, nestling it inside the coat..." (4) Smuggled (July 2011) chronicles a remarkably well-written......more

Goodreads review by Jenn (Booksessed)

I have been reviewing a lot of YA titles recently and momentarily forgot that this title was in the genre of adult fiction. It was in the back of my head, but due to mass quantities of YA, it slipped my mind, until I got to a sex scene. Then all I could think about was how inappropriate that specifi......more