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Daniel Bănulescu

Born 1960 · Romania

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    Observator cultural 2009 · Shortlist

    Cel mai bun roman al tuturor timpurilor

    Title translated by AI:“The Best Novel of All Time”

    Daniel Bănulescu · 48 when first published

    Novel · 575 pages · Politics, Satire

    AI-generated summary:In 1980s communist Romania the country’s most wanted traitor, known as Iarba Fiarelor, holds out in the mountains, hides in a monastery and is finally sheltered by a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Bucharest, among infamous Securitate men and the Ceaușescus.