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Life Begins on Friday
Viața începe vineri
Ioana Pârvulescu (born 1960)
Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
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Life Begins on Friday
Istros Books · United Kingdom · 2016
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One Friday in December 1897, a man is found unconscious in a field outside Bucharest, on the Băneasa estate. Everyone suspects something different: is he an international crook trying to disappear, a criminal, or just ill? Little by little a crowd gathers round him: a doctor and his daughter, a policeman, an eight-year-old errand boy who runs letters and parcels all over the capital, and the journalists of the newspaper Universul. The story, half a police mystery, covers only thirteen days, up to the end of the year, and brings back the Bucharest of around 1900.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 299 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, 1897
- First published
- 2009 by Humanitas
- Author's age
- 49 when first published
- ISBN
9789736893391 (original)
9781908236296 (Istros Books, United Kingdom)