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Asediul Vienei

“The Siege of Vienna” (title translated by AI)

Horia Ursu (born 1948)

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Transylvania from the triumph of communism after the Second World War to the transition after 1989, and the decline of a world with aristocratic roots. Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Jews and Armenians live side by side, and the differences between their languages do not stand in their way. What they share is pride in having belonged to a former empire, and the sense of living far from its centre, a Vienna they picture as a place of miracles. But Vienna is no longer what it was either.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Romania, 1945 to the 1990s
First published
2007 by Cartea Românească
Author's age
59 when first published