Greta's Passage

by Andrew Warren

Overview

Greta’s Passage is a one-woman’s journey from a bucolic childhood in a remote little village in the far recesses of Eastern Europe at a time when Fascism was just beginning to consume the world to the height of glamour and sophistication that only Paris of the early 1960’s could offer.

In time, Greta, though possessing very little formal education or social polish, proves to be a skillful study. Her education starts when she moves with her family to the big, cosmopolitan city of Bucharest, known at that time, with its wide avenues and Beaux-Arts architecture, as the Paris of Eastern Europe. As her life experiences expand, through marriage, sex, motherhood, and even love, she sheds her naïve persona to embark on an ambitious pursuit of worldliness. The world of the fashionable rich, which she reluctantly enters, shuns her at first, but as her unique powers of observation and imitation become ever more evident, she quickly gains.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150763760
Publisher:	Ibex Media
Publication date:	02/25/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	297 KB

About the Author

Andrew Warren’s personal story reads very much like the thrilling fiction he creates. Born and raised in Bucharest in Communist Romania, Andrew learned the meaning of adversity survival at an early age. By the age of seven, he was already writing stories of hopelessness and escapism reflecting on the life around him. When he was nine, his father was arrested and thrown in one of the regime’s most infamous prisons. During the following five years, his mother, an uneducated yet gutsy woman born in a Transylvanian shtetl, tried desperately to put food on the table through any means she could think of. Her exhausting efforts often left her impatient with Andrew’s obsessive story writing – so for thirty-five years he stopped writing, instead becoming the engineer his father wanted him to be. But now, his engineering career behind him, Andrew allowed his imaginative spirit take hold and he committed to being a professional writer. Teaching literature and composition writing by day at two New York-area colleges, as well a running a creative writing workshop at a senior center in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Andrew dedicates his remaining time to researching and writing his adventurous books. Andrew’s first foray into publishing was a short story entitled “Mendoza” about a man’s gradual descent into madness, which has been compared with the best of Guy de Maupassant, and just last year he published a fable entitled “Brushes” that dealt with the brutality and malice prevalent in Eastern Europe during the Communist era. Andrew lives in Greenwich Village with his wife Robyn. He has two children, Judy and Alex from a previous marriage.