The Romanian
Story of an Obsession
by Bruce Benderson
401 pages· 2006
About
A 2004 Prix de Flore-winning memoir follows the author's journalism assignment in Eastern Europe, where he immersed himself in local culture, struggled with unrequited love, and obsessively researched the lives of the Romanian King Carol II. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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