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The Romanian
Bruce BENDERSON
Snowbooks
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Winner of the 2004 Prix de Floreone of France's most distinguished literary prizesa wildly romantic, true-life love story
History follows a trail of sputtering desire, often calling upon the delusions of lovers to generate the sparks. If it werent for us, the world would suffer from a dismal lack of stories," writes Bruce Benderson in this brutally candid memoir.
What astonishes and intrigues is Bendersons way of recounting, in the sweetest possible voice, things that are considered shocking, wrote Le Monde. Whats so shocking? Its not just Bendersons job translating Céline Dions saccharine autobiography, which he admits is driving him mad; but his passion for an impoverished Romanian in a cheap club-kid platforms with dollar signs in his squinting eyes, whom he meets while on a journalism assignment in Eastern Europe.
Rather than retreat, Benderson absorbs everything he can about Romanian culture and discovers an uncanny similarity between his own obsession for the Romanian (named Romulus) and the disastrous love affair of King Carol II, the last king of Romania (1893-1953). Throughout, Bendersonabsolutely free of bitterness, nastiness, or any desire to protect himself, wrote Le Mondeis sustained by little white codeine pills, a poetic self-awareness, a sense of humor, and an unwavering belief in the perfect romance, even as wild dogs chase him down Romanian streets.

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