Hotel Europa

The author-narrator, a sarcastic Romanian e#xCC;#x81;migre#xCC;#x81; with a French wife, tells with great insight and humor the story of a young student#xE2;#x80;#x99;s life and education as he passes from post-Ceausescu Romania through an unwelcoming Western Europe beset with dangerous problems of its own. Sex-and drug-traffickers are only one part of the strange and paranoid world in which the student and his fellow-countrymen become entangled, while the author#xE2;#x80;#x99;s past#xE2;#x80;#x94;in the form of post-communist gangsters#xE2;#x80;#x94;begins to catch up with him in his retreat in rural France...