Doina
Ruști

The novel Bulgarian Nose by Doina Ruști continues the confession begun in Ferenike, a bestseller published by Humanitas.

A young man is murdered and thrown into a ditch. His daughter builds her identity upon this crime: she becomes the dead man’s daughter from Comoșteni.

A transformation of the world and a meditation on change.

The Stalinist era, the Bărăgan Plain.Tavi (14 years old) encounters a strange being in the endless plains of the Bărăgan. Each of them has an incredible story, and the two stories meet in a symbolic realm — that of mathematics.

Passion, music and crime, in the year of the Constitution (1923), of the first Romanian film and of an enigmatic crime.

Adulterer, adopted children, mothers defects, hypocrisy of adoptions, love and despair, Bucharest today.

Occult cookbook, Phanariots, mystery. Bucharest, 1798.

A woman living in the present day, discovers in a Bucharest bookshop a novel that tells her own life.

Romanian village today, the secrets of a small community, one child against the world, one culprit, more stories.

Zogru, the Romanian literary character by Doina Ruști - un unusual vampire, a Romanian Saint Germain

Year 1790: love, slaves, Phanariots, and Wallachian boyars. The novel is built around a contract for the sale of a human being—a manuscript that gradually becomes a character in its own right, haunting the entire narrative. Leun (17), a tailor from Thessaloniki, is captivated by a song about Bucharest as a city of promise.

Love online, virus, grooming, crime, cyberspace.

Two students at the Faculty of Letters fall in love in a strange way, after coming into contact with some mystical beds. Behind this unusual occurrence lies a long line of stories from a world that can be both older or newer, palpable or subtle, but definitely rooted in today’s history.

The page contains excerpts from critical studies and reviews of Doina Ruști’s novel Homeric, together with their sources. Contributors include Mircea Buda, Paul Cernat, Elvira Sorohan, Dorica Boltașu, Serenela Ghițeanu, Pompilia Chifu, Oana Marinescu, Constantin Dram, Nora Dinu, Amalia Drăgulănescu, and others, with references in Evenimentul zilei, România liberă, and Libertatea.

Urban adventure, love, crime, strange happenings, surrealism, satire.

He loved. He was deceived. He wanted to get revenge. She has another version. One story, two confessions.