In the great tradition of magic realism, the novel questions the fragility of truth while presenting the supernatural and all-too-real daily violence in the same matter-of-fact manner.
The Ghost in the Mill is a three-part novel which traces the roots of several dramas in a village in the south of communist Romania to an event that took place almost a century before. Mixing the real with the fantastic, examining history alongside local myths and painful memories, the novel follows the intertwined destinies of the villagers, as they are forced to acknowledge the existence of a ghost in an abandoned mill.