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What if Anastasia Romanova, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, had survived the shooting in Yekaterinburg? Taking up the legend that she found refuge in the Bulgarian village of Gabarevo, the novel imagines the seventy years she spends in a remote Balkan village. Her life is laid out like an album of old photographs arranged by an uncertain logic, a chronicle in which little-known historical details mix with possible memories and dreams. She outlives her family and the Russian Empire and lives through Bulgaria's upheavals, from the fall of Stamboliyski to the rise and collapse of socialism. Without seeking attention she becomes the village's moral anchor, and powerful men, King Boris III among them, come to her for a talk or advice. For her, hell is not a place but time.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

216 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria

First published

2012 by Janet 45

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9789544918019 (original)