![]() ![]() In the name of “equality,” the government has seized all the country’s resources, which means citizens like Cristian lack even basic necessities like food and electricity. For years, the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu has strictly controlled Romania’s citizens. ![]() The novel takes place in Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. agent in my computer” is watching us and so on.īut for Cristian Florescu, the 17-year-old protagonist of Ruta Sepetys’s new historical novel, “I Must Betray You,” the idea of surveillance isn’t a meme it’s a reality. Facebook is tracking us Alexa is listening to us “the F.B.I. The belief that we’re all being spied on all the time is so common nowadays that it has become a meme - a joke about the proliferation of tech. ![]() I MUST BETRAY YOU By Ruta Sepetys 319 pp. Welcome to YA/NYT, a monthly column in which we recommend one new young adult book that you won’t want to miss. ![]()
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