In the Red, Elena Mauli Shapiro
In the Red, Elena Mauli Shapiro
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In the Red
A Novel

Author: Elena Mauli Shapiro

Narrator: Veronica Den

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/16/2014


Synopsis

A darkly erotic novel about a good girl gone bad.

When Irina -- Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her-arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious Romanian man named Andrei.

Andrei awakens a powerful sensuality in Irina. And he has money - lots of it. For the first time, Irina feels free. But the longer she stays with Andrei, the more she is certain that she can't leave, and that may be complicit in Andrei's work - whatever that "work" might be. Then an unexpected friendship with a young Russian bride opens the door to escape, and also revenge.

A tantalizing, edgy exploration of women and love, power and money-interwoven with potent, unusual, and nervy Romanian fairy tales-In the Red asks what the legacy of love is, and who will be left unscathed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sladjana on October 16, 2021

ELENA MOLI ŠAPIRO-PLAMEN DODIRA ✒"Nekada davno dogodilo se nešto. Da se nije dogodilo,ne bi bilo ispričano." ✒"Irina je jednom prilikom pitala Andreja šta mu je bilo najčudnije kada je stigao u ovu zemlju. On je rekao:izbor." ✒"Čistota je,inače,usrana ideja primerena jedino bajkama. Ne,čekaj,to je uvre......more

Goodreads review by Uroš on May 02, 2019

Irina je usvojena kada je imala pet godina - odrasla je u Americi, a rodila se u Rumuniji. O svojoj zemlji zna samo ono što je pročitala u knjigama. Kada se u njenom životu pojavi Andrej, zgodni Rumun, ona će prvi put osetiti da nekome priprada. Knjiga se svrstava u erotske trilere, mada ako bi mene......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on September 10, 2015

I don't even know where to begin with this book. It was very different from anything I have read before. At first it seems that the story, which interweaves between Romanian fairy tales and the story between Irina and Andrei, is confusing and at times out of place. But once continuing on with the st......more

Goodreads review by Nemo on December 09, 2014

Actual Rating: 3.5 stele Since the genre said Womens Fiction I imagined It would be a story of a woman trying to reach her Romanian side. What I didn’t expect was a dark love story of just how bad things could get from just one mistake. Needless to say it was hard to hold those tears in near the end.......more

Goodreads review by Stacey on August 07, 2014

You know that feeling you get when you wake up in the middle of the night, convinced that you've had a really strange (possibly really great) dream, but the visual snippets you remember won't cooperate by getting in linear order? That's what reading this book feels like. I always felt just a little......more