Novels by Doina Ruști
Doina Ruști is one of the most appreciated female voices of contemporary literature. She became famous mainly due to her well-written novels, covering a wide variety of topics.
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.
An 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—especially since it is said to have been composed by the Sultan himself. He runs away from home with his family’s money, determined to make a free life for himself: to create luxurious garments and revel in the world of perfumes.
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.
A forest with ghosts and enchanted grass. A strange creature.
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.
