Histria Books is pleased to announce the release of Diary of 66: The Night I Burned Alive by Alexandra Furnea. This Memoir is published by Histria Perspectives an imprint of Histria Books dedicated to outstanding works of non-fiction in a variety of fields.
Diary of 66 is the true story of one woman’s triumph over tragedy, and also a warning about the often-deadly consequences of corruption. A young Romanian rock music journalist left home on the night of October 30, 2015, to cover a concert when a violent fire erupted in the Colectiv Club during the concert, trapping the audience inside. Over 180 people are severely injured and, in the days and months following the fire, 65 people lost their lives. Alexandra could have been number 66, but she survived against all odds.
Diary of 66 is her memoir about the night of the fire and everything that came after it: her fight against death in the catastrophically ill-equipped hospitals in Romania, that lied about their incompetence and about the presence of dangerous multidrug resistant germs to protect the corrupted Government, her struggle to get appropriate care after she’s discharged with open wounds and abandoned by the medical system, her journey towards recovery, and her life as a survivor of a national tragedy that made international headlines.
Diary of 66 is the winner of Gold Medal for Best Memoir of 2024 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. “Stories like Furnea’s are the ones that need to be told so that what happened is amplified to the point that it never, ever happens again,” wrote Readers’ Favorite.
Foreword Reviews calls it “a powerful memoir about a catastrophic fire that connects the personal suffering of the victims and their families to political malfeasance.”
Alexandra Furnea is a Romanian journalist, social activist, and writer. She has worked for over ten years as a music journalist, promoting the local and international rock scene. After surviving the horrific Colectiv Club fire, she wrote her memoir, Jurnalul lui 66, which became a bestseller in Romania.
