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La Belle Roumaine (Paperback)
Dumitru Tspeneag; Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
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Discovery Miles 3 230
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La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and
bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of
Europe. The novel follows Ana as she seduces cafe owners,
philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a
different version of her life story. To some, she's a former nurse,
to others, a former spy. To some she's French and to others,
Romanian. As each new layer of fabrication is added, the mystery of
Ana and of what she's running from grow apace.
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The Bulgarian Truck (Paperback)
Dumitru Tspeneag; Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
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Discovery Miles 2 950
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The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new
technique for writing a novel, which he calls "a building site
beneath the open sky," but he cannot persuade his more widely read
wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel, that it is any
good. Meanwhile, the narrator's extramarital affair with Milena, a
young Slovak novelist who writes in French, turns sour.
Interspersed among the narrator's accounts of his novel's growing
pains are stories of the characters he has invented-Tsvetan, a
Bulgarian truck driver, and Beatrice, an impenetrable French erotic
dancer-unfolding according to their own logic while hurtling toward
a fatal conclusion.
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