The author, Mihaela Arbid Stoica, was born in Bucharest on 12 September 1952. She studied Law at the University of Bucharest, got married at the age of 25 and travelled to Lebanon. She was a teacher of French History in a big Catholic school for girls.
She started to write at the age of 47 after her soul got full of memories, most of them bad and some nice. It was hard to understand oriental tradition, to accept rules when you have a level of education, especially in full civil war. Her first novel was Prisoner in Liberty. This was a big success in Bucharest and made a name for the author for the first time in her life. She believes that you can’t write if you don’t have experiences in life, you can’t talk about pain if you haven’t had a taste of it.
