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La Traversée du Styx (Recrossing the Styx) (ISBN 2.207.25699.5, Denöel/Gallimard, France) Largely based on the author’s Romanian past, Recrossing the Styx recounts the tragedy of a betrothed couple who attempts to flee Romania during Ceausescu’s regime. Doru, an Air Force cadet who falls in love with Simina (a promising actress) recounts the couple's story. Simina's father, a union leader, foments rebellion Solidarnosc style among his fellow miners which Radu’s father, a Securitate colonel, has to deal with. Doru escapes to the West by swimming across the Danube while his friends remain behind. After the fall of communism, he returns to solve an eight-year-old mystery: Whatever happened to Simina and Radu? Provocative, moving and ironic, Recrossing the Styx is not only an education sentimentale but also an initiation into the literary and political landscape of our time. Its multilayered plot, flashbacks, suspense and humor takes the reader through the whole spectrum of human emotions. “We have talked a lot about [Michel] Houellebecq and [Bret Easton] Ellis, but hardly about Dan Lungu and Corneliu Mitrache, authors who also rock.” -Technikart magazine, 2005 November issue “The more we advance in Mitrache’s novel, the more we succumb to the story’s emotional roller coaster... A youthful and timely prose that needs to be discovered... very touching and sensual, lyrical and lucid.” -La Roumanie pour les amis http://roumanie.superforum.fr/viewtopic.forum?t=339 or onlinero review http://roumanie.superforum.fr/viewtopic.forum?t=339 “Magnificent and breathless... The hero's trip back to Romania is extremely powerful, of great dramaturgy. “ -Chez Lorraine (http://chezlorraine.blogspot.com/2006/03/la-traversee-du-styx.html) A stage version by the author premiered September 8th, 2007, at L’ARTicle in Paris. Click here for sample chapters: