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A Princess of Roumania
Contributor(s): Park, Paul (Author)
ISBN: 0765374420     ISBN-13: 9780765374424
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2006
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary
- Fiction | Fantasy - Historical
- Fiction | Alternative History
Dewey: FIC
Series: Princess of Roumania
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5" W x 8" (1.14 lbs) 368 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 113825
Reading Level: 5.6   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 22.0
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Park, Paul: - PAUL PARK is the author of A Princess of Roumania, and numerous other novels. He published his first novel in the 1980s and swiftly attracted notice as one of the finest authors on the "humanist" wing of American SF. His powerful, densely written narratives of religious and existential crisis on worlds at once exotic and familiar won him comparisons with Gene Wolfe and Brian Aldiss at their best. He lives in North Adams, Massachusetts.