![]() He is not injured, only confused, certain only that his name is Dan. He takes a while to die, uttering something mysterious as he expires. It all takes place with seasonal aplomb during the final 13 days of 1897.A young aristocrat is discovered lying in the snow, mortally wounded. ![]() This is a feel good novel busy with everyday life as lived by a large cast of singular individuals. Parvulescus' book is a magical tale full of enchanting characters who can carry the reader to another time. We might even say that it is we who inhabit their future, and so too does Dan Creţu, 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. The plot of Life Begins on Friday takes place during the last 13 days of 1897 and culminates in a beautiful tableau of the future as imagined by the characters we have come to know and love. Within the pages of this charming book, the stories of a variety of 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. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there. ![]() ![]() A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. ![]()
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