the Road to Freedom: A True Story About Emigration, Courage and Power Start Over

In July 1984, a sixteen-year-old boy steps into the black water of the Danube - no boat, no plan, only a secret his mother had just entrusted to him.This book is about what happened next.From the betrayal of old Serbian men who handed him over to the authorities, to refugee camps in Germany and Switzerland, to the markets of Belgium where a man nicknamed Moustache taught him to sell - and to get back up. From a garage full of vinyl records to a three-thousand-mile trenching contract in Spain. From a love lost to another love found. From a fight with a corrupt system in Romania to a black-and-gold food truck at a market in Brussels, forty-two years later.The Road to Freedom is not a how-to guide on emigration. It is the true story of a man who understood, early on, one simple thing: courage isn't the absence of fear - it's a determination stronger than it.For anyone who feels like a prisoner in their own life - in their country, their job, their routine - and wonders if it's too late to start over.It never is.