{"id":505,"date":"2024-06-04T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/?page_id=505"},"modified":"2024-06-04T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:49:47","slug":"the-last-winter-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/?page_id=505","title":{"rendered":"The Last Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN:\u00a0<strong>0-595-31270-5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edited by iUniverse in 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two worlds-one story. Two worlds falling apart: Romania from the agony of Ceausescu\u2019s reign and under his successors to this day, and Nineveh the doomed, shortly before the Babylonian conquest in 612 BC. One story: rampant corruption, lawlessness, pervasive moral degradation, and cruelty. Rulers and robbers are almost impossible to distinguish from one another. A thin minority of honest people still try to change their worlds: some fight in bloody revolutions, others devise new laws. Do they have a chance? The lead character, a researcher, comes from their ranks. His is a long-term vision. He seems to think that, beyond their decline and punishment, both worlds have something left to salvage-their libraries, their cultural identities. The Last Winter relates his dreams, his struggle, and, implicitly, his hope. He has essentially one friend, a cat, and one hope-that future generations will appreciate and need the heritage he\u2019s striving to preserve. Wish him luck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/?page_id=59\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"59\">Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a00-595-31270-5 Edited by iUniverse in 2004 Two worlds-one story. Two worlds falling apart: Romania from the agony of Ceausescu\u2019s reign and under his successors to this day, and Nineveh the doomed, shortly before the Babylonian conquest in 612 BC. One story: rampant corruption, lawlessness, pervasive moral degradation, and cruelty. Rulers and robbers are almost impossible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrian-grigore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}