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A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there. The stories of the various characters unfold, each closely interwoven with the next, and outlining the features of what ultimately turns out to be the most important and most powerful character of all: the city of Bucharest itself. The novel covers the last 13 days of 1897 and culminates in a beautiful tableau of the future as imagined by the different characters. We might, in fact, say that it is we who inhabit their future. And so too does Dan Cretu, alias Dan Kretzu, the present-day journalist hurled back in time by some mysterious process for just long enough to allow us a wonderful glimpse into a remote, almost forgotten world, but one still very much alive in our hearts.

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""Life Begins On Friday "is a unique and charming journey into the amazing world of times gone by a wrold more than 100 years distant, but very similar to our own in its core features." EU Prize for Literature committee (winner)"

Life Begins on Friday

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    A Paperback / softback by Ioana Parvulescu, Alistair Ian Blyth

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      Publisher Istros Books
      Published 20 June 2016
      ISBN-13 9781908236296
      978-1908236296
      ISBN-10 1908236299

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there. The stories of the various characters unfold, each closely interwoven with the next, and outlining the features of what ultimately turns out to be the most important and most powerful character of all: the city of Bucharest itself. The novel covers the last 13 days of 1897 and culminates in a beautiful tableau of the future as imagined by the different characters. We might, in fact, say that it is we who inhabit their future. And so too does Dan Cretu, alias Dan Kretzu, the present-day journalist hurled back in time by some mysterious process for just long enough to allow us a wonderful glimpse into a remote, almost forgotten world, but one still very much alive in our hearts.

      Trade Review
      ""Life Begins On Friday "is a unique and charming journey into the amazing world of times gone by a wrold more than 100 years distant, but very similar to our own in its core features." EU Prize for Literature committee (winner)"

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