Ca să nu se aleagă praful de toate

Samson seeks revenge for the wrongs of Romania’s troubled 1990s. He is strong like the Samson of the Bible. He feels no pain in his body. Yet his inner pain never ends. He fights the harsh forces that drive change in Romania.

Cosmin Perța’s short novel blends social strife with swift, graphic violence. Samson is part antihero and part superhero. His pain and his struggles, time after time, echo the myth of Sisyphus. Through Samson, the book shows a generation that lived through turmoil. They survived it in Romania and on Europe’s fringes.