În pânza tarantulei
“În pânza tarantulei” (In the Tarantula's Web) is a novel about love and captivity, about choices that seem to offer a way out and gradually turn into traps. Gioni Badea leads his characters through a world of appearances, pride, social conventions and emotional dependencies, at the centre of which stands Grațiela – a woman caught in a web patiently woven around her life.
The author draws his characters the way he looks at people: with interest in their weaknesses, sometimes with irony, sometimes with indulgence, but always with the wish to discover what lies beyond appearances. Beyond the story, I found here something I have met in all of Gioni Badea's books: the pleasure of telling, and of placing human destinies face to face with circumstances that force them to reveal themselves.
“În pânza tarantulei” is, in the end, a novel about the price of inner freedom and about the courage to take back one's own life. For me, as the editor of his books, every new manuscript by Gioni Badea also means meeting again a writer who has remained faithful to a simple belief: a story deserves to be written when, behind it, there is a human destiny that deserves to be understood.
— Cristina Paula Marin, the book's editor (back-cover text)
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