The Last Cold Winter

Authors

Gabriela P. Suarez, Florida International UniversityFollow

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Major/Program

Creative Writing

First Advisor's Name

Les Standiford

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee chair

Second Advisor's Name

Lynne Barrett

Second Advisor's Committee Title

Committee member

Third Advisor's Name

Asher Z. Milbauer

Third Advisor's Committee Title

Committee member

Keywords

Fiction, novel, creative writing

Date of Defense

3-2-2017

Abstract

The Last Cold Winter is a historical novel that takes place in Romania at the end of the 1989 Communist Revolution. George Bird, a naturalized American citizen, returns with his thirty-year-old son, Adrian, to the country they had defected from twenty-eight-years earlier. George Bird is dying of lung cancer, and he wishes to see his parents and his country one last time. The trip quickly turns into a nightmare when he is kidnapped the first day back. Adrian, who doesn’t speak Romanian, must now meet the kidnapper’s demand for a list he knows nothing about in order to save his father. With the help of a hotel clerk, Simona, they travel to Transylvania to uncover his father’s troubled past. In the end, the journey helps Adrian understand the circumstances that had influenced his father’s decision to defect, and his need to atone for them now.

Identifier

FIDC001771

Recommended Citation

Suarez, Gabriela P., "The Last Cold Winter" (2017). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3273.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3273