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Sava has fled the ruins of Eastern Thrace after the Balkan Wars and now studies law in Sofia; Eliza, a general's daughter and a gifted pianist, is in her final year at the music school. Their love is innocent and short. The new world war sends the young idealist to a school for reserve officers and, in September 1916, to the Dobrudzha front, where fate brings him together with a Romanian writer called up to fight and a four-year-old orphan. Drawing on documents from little-known pages of Bulgarian history, the novel asks what sacrifice means: to die on the battlefield for one's country, or to save a child's life. Around them are battles, victims and waves of refugees, in a Bulgaria lifted by idealism but torn by conflict, whose personal and national wounds have still not healed.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

319 pages in the original

Genres

War, Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, Romania, 1910s

First published

2023 by Ciela

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789542844815 (original)