SICK BONDS

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The novel Sick Bonds was built on the ancient myth of the three Furies the vengeful goddesses of the Darkness who weaved human destinies with their spindles of yew wood twisting the past present and future of the earthly plotting their fates and punishing them for their crimes. Clotho reeled Lachesis weaved and Atropos the one of no return as her name implies cut the thread of life. Maybe justice was being done maybe they were merely fulfilling the human inevitability or maybe it was just hatred punished by other hatred.... Evergreen blooming in the dead of winter healing at times it can be at the same time highly toxic - good mixed with evil.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The theme of the novel deals with an existential drama that of the central character Amalia Aludean at the age of senescence carrying the burden of a broken destiny of an unfulfilled love of betrayal even by her own sister Malvina Prudel who flees the country illegally with Dorian Amalia's fiancé to settle in the USA. Amalia Aludean bears the stamp of unhappiness passed down from generation to generation. The imprint of the past is visible and locked in her own experience like fossils in an amber amber a symbolic element (Amalia's amber ring). Amalia's drama becomes acute when Lili her and Dorian's daughter decides to leave for the USA and will reach madness when Lili dies in a car accident. Amalia refuses to accept the tragic outcome ignoring reality hanging on to the illusion that her daughter is still alive even if far away across seas and lands.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The arrival in the country of Malvina the treacherous sister at the height of the COVID pandemic and the realization that she was behind the wheel at the time of the unfortunate accident in which Lili lost her life trigger the springs of hatred. Amalia however knows how to disguise both hatred and psychological degradation or facts and the yew flowers reappear obsessively in the pages of the book with suggestive power.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Malvina dies in suspicious circumstances. It is Marlene Malvina and Dorian's daughter Marlene who unravels the mystery discovering in Amalia her aunt a person whose mind is ravaged (she mistakes Marlene for Lili) by the burden of hatred. Marlene also has the task of overcoming hereditary tragedy through forgiveness and love.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book translated into English by:</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Ovidiu Constantin Cornil?.</span></p>