Summary of Life Begins on Friday
“Life Begins on Friday” is set in 1897 Bucharest, when the Romanian capital was a vibrant, cosmopolitan city often referred to as ‘Little Paris’. The story begins with a young man found mortally wounded in the snow. Nearby, another man is discovered unconscious, with no memory of how he arrived at the scene. Is he somehow connected to the death of the first man?
Reasons to read Life Begins on Friday
“Life Begins on Friday” is an imaginative detective novel with elements of fantasy, such as time travel. Ioana Pârvulescu received the EU Prize for Literature in 2013 for this novel. She is a Romanian writer and historian who also teaches modern literature at the University of Bucharest.
Setting: Bucharest (Romania)
Original title: Viața începe vineri
Year of publication: 2009
Nr of pages: 280
