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A Princess of Roumania

By Paul Park

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780765349507

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This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternContinue

This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts college town. The narrative is split between our world and the people in Roumania working to protect or to capture Miranda: her Aunt Aegypta Schenck versus the mad Baroness Ceaucescu in Bucharest, and the sinister alchemist, the Elector of Ratisbon, who holds her true mother prisoner in Germany. This is the story of how Miranda -- with her two best friends, Peter and Andromeda -- is brought back to her home reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will have much to learn about their true identities and the strange world they find themselves in.This story is a triumph of contemporary fantasy.

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  • A Princess of Roumania By Paul Park

    Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania will delight fantasy readers with its mix of intrigue, death and the possibility of rebirth. Park, author of half a dozen science fiction novels and a wonderful short story collection, has turned in an interesting f ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania

    "Delightful fantasy" In the eighteenth century in an alternate world England has been devastated by a tsunami like wave while in central Europe Roumania and Germany battle for control. Sorceress Aegypta Schenck conjures up a magic tome that enables h ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • More like 2 1/2 stars. Really nicely written in spots, but deeply flawed and oft tomes ittritatingly plotted. Overall a worthwhile read despite the problems.

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 480 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0765349507
  • ISBN-13: 9780765349507
  • Publisher: Tor Fantasy
  • Pub date: Jun 27, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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