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“Bucharest, the Great Hope” (title translated by AI)
Cristian Teodorescu (born 1954)
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In troubled times for Romania at the start of the 20th century, Vasilica and Tiberiu take what they have saved in their Transylvanian village and set off with the whole family to make a life in Bucharest. Trained in Budapest, she becomes the capital’s best-known midwife, preferred to the maternity doctors even by the city’s grandees. He, a former schoolteacher who learned Latin and Greek in Vienna, joins a group of patriots who see themselves as the Romanian resistance against the German occupation. Around them unfolds an age of upheaval that ends with the Great War and the union of 1918.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 288 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, 1900s–1918
- First published
- 2019 by Polirom
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
9789734678488 (original)