Around the World in Books / Romania (2 Books)

Inside One Of The World’s Most Notorious Dictatorships

A journalist suspects someone is spying on him on a bike trip, and a Nobel Prize–winner’s heroine fears Romania’s secret police

Janice Harayda
6 min readMar 22, 2022

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Cover of “The Appointment” / Credit: Metropolitan Books

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Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.