Summary Of Aycliffe's The Lost
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My book I reviewed was The Lost, by Jonathan Aycliffe. The main
setting for this book is modern day Romania. As a naive Englishman,
Michael Feraru travels to a remote, forbidding castle in the mountains of
Transylvania and then fleshes it out with appealing characters and a
different plot. Michae ....
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.... prep-school teacher in Cambridge,
Michael Feraru, inherits Castle Vliacu, his family's fortress in the
Transylvanian Alps and hopes to turn it into an orphanage for Romanian
children. Delightful letters pass between Michael and his love, Sophie
Wandless, back in Cambridge, as he describes his travels through Eastern
Europe, his frustrating encounters with bureaucrats, and the gloomy life in
today's Bucharest. Meanwhile, he hires a research assistant, Liliana, to
help him establish his bona fid ....
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