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Synopsis
Many little girls dream that they are really princesses, and one day their destiny will come to fetch them. This literally comes true for Miranda Popescu in Paul Park's tale of parallel worlds, the first of a series. Miranda has only a few scattered memories of the time before she was adopted at the age of three from a Romanian orphanage and brought by her new parents to live in a small Massachusetts town. But after a mysterious boy burns one of 15-year-old Miranda's Romanian possessions, she and two of her friends, Peter and Andromeda, are transported to another world. In that place, Peter recovers his missing arm, Andromeda becomes a yellow dog, and both politics and prophecy suggest that Miranda has a vital role to play in her homeland of "Roumania," a powerful European empire.
| Size | | Length: | 368 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 23.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "In early August, after her best friend, Andromeda, had gone to Europe, Miranda met a boy in the woods."
Industry Reviews
"Sharp characterization and an unusual historical backdrop distinguish Park's charming leadoff to an intricate new fantasy series....[T]he wily baroness and the necromancing elector promise dashing adventure and delicious heartbreak ahead."
Publishers Weekly (05/16/2005)
"It may not be too soon to call this one of the year's best fantasies."
Locus - Faren Miller (06/01/2005)
"[E]legantly imagined and densely poetic....[T]here's an argument to be made that keeping us off-balance is what skilled fantasists do, and A PRINCESS OF ROUMANIA is one of the more seductively original examples of this in recent fantasy, and probably one of the strongest fantasy novels we'll see this year....If he's able to sustain the invention and lyrical intensity of A PRINCESS OF ROUMANIA in future volumes, we may be looking at one of the major fantasy works of the decade, and one that finally brings Park the readership he deserves."
Locus - Gary K. Wolfe (06/01/2005)
"[A] smart political drama--one laced with paranoia-inducing saboteurs and riddling apparitions--that jumps between a handful of stories to gripping if occasionally confusing effect. It's a journey almost as gratifying as the magic trick pulled off by Park, who should be knighted for breathing life into an oft-tired genre."
Entertainment Weekly - Nisha Gopalan (08/05/2005)
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