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Vasil Strandzhev, called the Emperor by treasure hunters, has spent years building one of the world's finest collections of gold aurei struck by the Roman soldier emperors of 235–285, rulers raised to the throne by their troops and then killed by them. He can tell genuine coins from fakes and can even call up the emperors' restless ghosts to talk with them. Between 1995, when he meets young Yulian, who shares his gift, and 2015, the old man hands on his knowledge and his own life story: a partisan helper, a Soviet paratrooper, a political prisoner in the Bogdanov Dol camp, his fate entwined with that of a Greek family. Scenes from antiquity, the Middle Ages, communist times and the present alternate.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

144 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria

First published

2025 by Hermes

ISBN

9789542624448 (original)