God's Buried Children
By Daniel Farcas
Publisher: Daniel Farcas
Published: July 31, 2014
ASIN: B00MBU7I66
Amazon Synopsis:
All earnings from God's Buried Children
go to MyAmericanKids.com. This true story is the journal of an orphan child
born in Romania in 1980's during Nicolae Ceauscu's communist regime, Daniel
becomes a homeless child on Bucharest streets and in the city underground
sewers after he runs away from the orphanage and lives through the 1989
Anticommunism Revolution.
There are other stories tangled in the novel, an adopted child, a child reunited with his father and a child killing his father and grandfather who abandon him.
There are other stories tangled in the novel, an adopted child, a child reunited with his father and a child killing his father and grandfather who abandon him.
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Daniel Farcas’ father was a chauffeur
for the American Embassy during the Communist reign before 1989. His mother was
Romanian. His father left Romania before
he was born, leaving his mother to raise him alone. When she died, no one
wanted him, so he was sent to an orphanage in Bucharest.
God’s Buried Children is
Daniel’s journal account of life in the orphanage and of life on the streets,
living in the sewers of Bucharest as a homeless teenager. The descriptions of
the daily happenings in the orphanage were so brutal it is unimaginable to
think that the orphanage caregivers were put in place to care for the
well-being of children. We are told of the basement punishment where if you
fell asleep in the dark, you ran the risk of the rats eating your fingers and
toes. Daily rapings were not uncommon. It was safer to run away and live on the
street than stay in the orphanage.
Life in the sewer was not easy either.
Daniel lived together with several friends from the orphanage. They banded
together as family, helping one another out as best they could.
In 1989 the revolution against the
communist regime of Nicolae Ceauscu arose and placed the country in upheaval.
We learn of some of the stories of what happened to some of his friends and
discover where Daniel ended up after the Anticommunist Revolution.
This novel was written in English which
is Daniel’s second language. As such, the grammar and spelling reflect this,
making the book somewhat difficult to read at times, though the ideas do come
across. In some ways it increases the authenticity of the book because it adds
to the voice of the speaker who is from a different land and shows that he
speaks with an accent, rather than speaking with perfect English.
The brutal conditions in which Daniel
lived are hard to read about but the book is inspirational in that he escaped
from those horrible conditions and is using the funds from the sales of his
book and his time to help families from other countries make their way to the
US through http://www.MyAmericanKids.com.
God’s Buried Children is a
testament to the courage and strength that those children had in order to
survive through the years in the orphanage and during life in the sewers. I
gave this book 4 stars out of 5.
Thank you to the author for providing a
copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion
was not required. All thoughts are my own.
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