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An existential mystery forces a woman to understand the purpose of her life. In the course of this adventure, she accidentally enters a Terra incognita, inside the lives of the men she loved, hurt and finally accepted. Written with sensitivity and a rare sagacity, this book contains a century of wisdom about time, age, exile, love and fate, creating a kind of suspense rare in literature today.
--Andrei Codrescu
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The intelligent and measured third-person narration brings to mind authors such as Nabokov, Musil, and Francis Jammes. In other words, an insightful and delicious read that lingers in a reader's mind long after the last line.
--Tsipi Keller
Translated from Romanian by James Ryan.
Carmen Firan, born in Romania, has published several novels, collections of short stories, essays and poetry, including The Lost Shadow, The Farce, Changing Your Sign, Changing your Destiny – An Immigrant’s Horoscope, Words and Flesh. Her work appears in translation in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Poland. Since 2000 she has been living in New York.
Translator:
James Ryan was trained as a Romanian translator at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. He translated several Romanian literature, including Vitaly, a novel by Adrian Sangeorzan.