Astronaut!

Romania, 1989: a grey place of mysterious queues, ubiquitous informers and daily news flashes about a man-eating bear that is terrorising the country. Amidst the daily drudge of work, rationing and careful conversation with neighbours, two lives unexpectedly collide when an idealistic police detective, Constantin , is tasked with solving a string of grisly murders, and a rebellious school child, Lia , is unwittingly drawn into her elderly neighbour''s seditious plot. Dryly satirical, incredibly tense and deeply moving, ASTRONAUT! is both a detective novel and a coming-of-age tale, one with a perennially relevant message: the lies we accept today become the truths of tomorrow. Praise for the work of Oana Aristide: ''Achingly believable, unsensational and chilling'' The Times ''A beautifully written, emotionally gripping book'' Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Oana Aristide
• Publisher: Wildfire
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.03.2026
• EAN: 9781035420827
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3542082-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Romania, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989