THE GREAT NOVEL OF FRANCO-ROMANIAN BROTHERHOOD

With his brand-new book, Les Demoiselles de Fontaine [The Young Ladies of Fontaine] (trans. Marily Le Nir, Noir sur Blanc), Cătălin Mihuleac delivers a major novel of Franco-Romanian brotherhood, simultaneously poignant and infused with irresistible humor. Through the friendship between Marcel Fontaine, a French officer of the Berthelot Mission, and Petru Negru, a student passionate about popular culture, the entire history of 20th-century Romania unfolds—between Francophilia, Russification, and communist repression. The tragic fates of the “Demoiselles de Fontaine” [Young Ladies of Fontaine] recall the brutality of a regime that crushed its elites, while the humanity of the characters reveals the power of memory.

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