Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania

57 bittersweet stories offering a unique glimpse of this irresistible and enthralling country, where locals say, "Ca la noi, la nimeni. There's nobody quite like us." Ormsby's colourful characters will entertain, educate and enrage. It depends on who is reading. Close your guide book, meet the people. 

Mike Ormsby is a former BBC journalist/World Service trainer, whose book has become a cult-read among Romanians, Romaniaphiles and the uninitiated around the world. His ironic but affectionate tales, of ordinary people in often-extraordinary circumstances, won glowing reviews from Romania's literary critics; some dubbed him 'our British Caragiale', after the Victorian-era Romanian playwright/satirist.