Political prisoner Bruno Matei, a puppeteer of Italian ancestry, has been released from jail a broken man, suffering from amnesia. An uneasy relationship forms between Matei Brunul and Bojin, the secret policeman who keeps him under constant surveillance. Gradually, the secret police will try to remould Matei s mind by rewriting his past, turning the puppeteer into a puppet of the new totalitarian order. In parallel, a harrowing second narrative reveals Matei s prison experiences: the story of an innocent man physically and mentally crushed by the totalitarian system, which explodes the manipulative fictions of the secret police one by one. “. . . exquisitely comic and movingly tragic by turns, while its shifting perspectives in time and narrative point of view keep the reader constantly involved in the story. It is a remarkable achievement by a writer who was born in 1975 and had no personal experience of the era it describes, bearing comparison with classics of the genre such as Milan Kundera’s The Joke.” (David Lodge)

    

    Stelian, a book editor with a sideline in international police work, has to kill a man, a general whose book he’s just published. Will he pull the trigger?

    J. Simpson, Scott Peterson and the timeless seducers of literature epitomized by the figures of Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don’t advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, friendly, generous, romantic and kind. Through their believable “mask of sanity,” they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly, for a general audience, what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.

    “When it comes to the Romania writers the one name that impressed me lately and that comes immediately into my mind because of this fact is Marian Coman.” (The Dark Wolf Fantasy Review)

    The stories are about alternate worlds, mythical creatures as the Sphynx, werewolves, vampires, extra-terrestrial beings etc. The anthology also includes a large text from ...And Then The Nightmare Came At Last by Oliviu Craznic(Best 2010 Novel) and the story Angels And Moth by Costi Gurgu (Best 2010 Story).Summary: - George Anania (Galileo Award for All Life Achievement): The Beekeeper- Oliviu Craznic (Galileo Award for Best Novel 2010): ...And Then The Nightmare Came At Last (here is featured most of 1st part of the novel)- Costi Gurgu (Galileo Award for Best Story 2010): Angels And Moths- Michael Haulica: We, The Ones With Burned Eyes; Microtexts- Stefana Czeller: Serving the Dog-God- Mircea Oprita: The Science Of Electronic Engineering- Floirn Pitea: Hunting The Sphynx- Liviu Radu: The Birch Trees- Cristian Teodorescu: Electric-Magnetic Muse- Marian Truta: Cumania 2010

    The poems which appear as ‘definitions’ are rather like Haiku in their intensity and succinctness; condensed descriptions of a feeling or a moment, they offer us an open door into the larger world of internal reflection. Dosage: read one a day before meals or lingering over coffee.