Mike Ormsby

Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania Mike Ormsby

57 bittersweet stories offering a unique glimpse of this irresistible and enthralling country, where locals say, "Ca la noi, la nimeni. There's nobody quite like us." Ormsby's colourful characters will entertain, educate and enrage. It usually depends on who is reading. Close your guide book, meet the people.

Mike Ormsby is a former BBC journalist whose book has become a cult read among Romanians, Romaniaphiles and the uninitiated around the world. His ironic but affectionate tales, of ordinary people in often-extraordinary circumstances, have won glowing reviews from Romania's literary critics, some of whom dubbed him 'our British Caragiale', in reference to the popular Victorian playwright/satirist.