"My secret favorite movies were the cool ones, the New Wave French. I wanted to be Anna Karina. I bobbed my hair and imagined I was Jean-Luc Godard's muse. I watched each episode of Vivre sa Vie at least a dozen times and memorized all the lines."
—Red Hands
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Thank you, Ellen!
A new Goodreads review for @ColinWSargent's Red Hands:
'This novel is so many things—page-turner, history lesson, love story, thriller, and intimate view of family ties, power, and greed. Highly recommended.'
Yo! Thanks Ellen.
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"Well, this is weird," I said. "What's up?"
"Do you know anything about the Ceausescus?" Catalin asked.
"The dictators? Nothing beyond what I've seen on CNN."
"Perfect. There's someone I'd like you to meet."
Red Hands is now Indexed in the collection of the National Library of Romania. Glad to know that Iordana's voice is being heard around the world!
Opening the Sunday paper to find a review of Red Hands was a wonderful treat. Thank you William Barry for your thoughtful words. Intriguing connections!
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"Neptune, on the Black Sea, was made out of nothing. Everything smelled brand new. There were half-finished hotels, red-tile-roofed villas, wonderfully built terraces...Our comrade architects had been given, for once, a free hand."
From Red Hands
"Before it was all over, Romanians everywhere sought answers frantically in coffee cups, tea leaves, tarot cards, even kernels of corn tossed furtively behind their desks...They never discussed events or names, but everybody knew what it was all about."
-Excerpt from Red Hands.
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Here's a weekend treat: @ColinWSargent, author of RED HANDS, does a Q&A with Tomislav Longinovic.
They discuss communist regimes and the nature of power, with reference to Iordana Ceausescu and her story.
Read it here: bit.ly/3lBgpyW
Regardless of how extraordinary the tale is, Red Hands is a nonfiction novel; a product of hundreds of hours of interviews.
Looking forward to the Publication Reading and Celebration for Red Hands at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, at 5 p.m. on March 29th in Washington Hall. See you there!
Had a wonderful time speaking with Dan Domench. Great thoughtful questions.
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While writing my new novel Red Hands, a song took over everything. Iordana's song. It started to drive everything in the story.
Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love" is spooky, sexy, romantic, and doomed. It rides a knife's edge like an incantation.
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"Dance Me to the End of Love" brings the star-crossed lovers Iordana and Valentin together, and it tears them apart. youtube.com/watch?v=EImVucJO…
One of my favorite passages from Red Hands.
Find out more of Iordana's story at amazon.com/Red-Hands/dp/1909…
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The skies are grey and snow's on the horizon, but we're here to provide some summer sun! Keep an eye on those store shelves and mailboxes, folks, our February/March issue is here!
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Check out this new Goodreads review of RED HANDS by screenwriter Brian Daly:
"A novel truer than any nonfiction history of what happened when Nicolae Ceausescu grabbed control of Romania and drove the country off a cliff."
More Goodreads reviews: bit.ly/3ZcxdKw
ALT A review that reads: RED HANDS is a novel truer than any nonfiction history of what happened when Nicolae Ceausescu grabbed control of Romania and drove the country off a cliff. Colin Sargent writes compellingly in the first-person voice of Iordana Borila Ceausescu, who married into the family, saw everything from the inside, and eventually had to flee with her young son while Romanians on both sides of the revolution hunted her. RED HANDS is an astonishing tour de force that must be read.
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here is an online sample to peek inside and share
📖 sample of 'Red Hands'
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