Lit in Translation

Cel mai bun roman al tuturor timpurilor

“The Best Novel of All Time” (title translated by AI)

Daniel Bănulescu (born 1960)

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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.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
575 pages in the original
Genres
Politics, Satire (assigned by AI)
Set in
Romania, 1980s
First published
2008 by Cartea Românească
Author's age
48 when first published
ISBN

9789732319758 (original)