Soldiers: A Bucharest Story
Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari
Adrian Schiop (born 1973)
Translated by Philip Ó Ceallaigh
English editions
In EnglishSoldiers: A Bucharest Story
Dispozitiv Books · Romania · 2020 · Paperback · 307 pages
To make his life easier, a journalist with homosexual leanings gives up the press and women and enrols in a doctorate on manele, the pop music of the Balkan underclass. For his research he moves to Ferentari, Bucharest’s poorest district, frozen in the anarchy of the 1990s, where hustle is the law and manele blare from every window: a closed, hard world of hustlers, tramps, thugs and addicts in which a sucker like him has no business. There he meets Alberto, an ex-convict from a well-known underworld family, a brawler who can show his tender side, and who discovered in prison that he can like men, a taboo in Ferentari.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 256 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania
- First published
- 2013 by Polirom
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9789734640829 (original)
9789730310894 (Dispozitiv Books, Romania)