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The Days of the King
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Filip Florian (born 1968)
Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
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The Days of the King
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · United States · 16 August 2011 · Hardcover · 208 pages
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Joseph Strauss, a dentist from Berlin, decides in the spring of 1866 to follow a captain of dragoons, Karl Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who has agreed to rule the United Principalities as Carol I. After an eventful journey he reaches Bucharest with his cat and finds a strange city with oriental ways. He marries a Serbian woman, Elena Ducovici, and becomes close to the prince, for whom he brews teas meant to drive away his anxieties.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 272 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, 1866
- First published
- 2008 by Polirom
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9789734611935 (original)
9780547388359 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)