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La Traversée du Styx (Crossing the Styx) ISBN 2.207.25699.5, Denöel/Gallimard, France Largely based on the author’s Romanian past, Crossing 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, brutally suppresses it. Doru escapes to the West 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? Whatever happened to the woman he loved? “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, Paris. Click here for a sample chapter: