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Novelist of history, memory, and mystery, where the fabulous grows naturally from the real.
Doina Ruști is a Romanian novelist whose work explores the porous boundary between reality and the fantastic, from contemporary narratives (Ferenike) to 18th-century Balkan worlds and a body of urban legends and mythologies inspired by Bucharest and the Romanian Plain.
One of Romania’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, she is the author of fourteen novels and three short story collections, translated into more than fifteen languages and studied in Romanian schools. Her most awarded novel, The Ghost in the Mill, is a haunting parable of communism.
Her Phanariot Trilogy — The Phanariot Manuscript, The Book of Perilous Dishes, and Homeric — reimagines 1 ...more

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	Lizoanca la 11 ani 4.38 avg rating — 1,201 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paturi oculte 3.92 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zavaidoc în anul iubirii 4.26 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mâța Vinerii 3.76 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2017 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manuscrisul fanariot 4.16 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ciudățenii amoroase din Bucureștiul fanariot 3.56 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ferenike 4.48 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Logodnica 3.96 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zogru by Doina Ruști (Goodreads Author), Ioan Groșan (Foreword) 4.01 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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His death hit me hard, and I was never able to let him go. Even though I’d seen him dead, then buried right before my eyes, the truth was, he’d never really left me. I grew up measuring myself against him, counting the years, thinking, One day, I'll be as old as Tavică was. Just a few more years, and I’ll be just like him. I never stopped to imagine how he might have grown older. Instead, he remai Read more of this blog post »

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Doina Ruști asked a question about Ferenike: How does Ferenike relate to memory and guilt in your work? Ferenike grew out of my ongoing interest in memory as something fragile and unreliable. Guilt in this novel is not individual, but transmitted across generations, shaped by political history and unspoken trauma. I wanted to explore how remembering can be both an act of resistance and a burden, especially in a post-totalitarian world.
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“Str. Lipscani este tapetată integral cu chemări, de unde și credința bucureștenilor că cine trece pe-acolo nu se mai întoarce niciodată acasă.”
― Doina Rusti, Manuscrisul fanariot

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“Omul hăituit capătă o încredere oarbă în destin, răspândită și transformată, cu timpul, într-un un adevărat corpus de superstiții cu caracter geografic.”
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“Nu ştiu de ce, iubirile care încep iarna sunt mai intense şi de cele mai multe ori se termină prost. Mai ales iubirile de Crăciun par făcute dintr‐o suferinţă bătrână.”
― Doina Rusti, Homeric

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“Str. Lipscani este tapetată integral cu chemări, de unde și credința bucureștenilor că cine trece pe-acolo nu se mai întoarce niciodată acasă.”
― Doina Rusti, Manuscrisul fanariot

tags: bucurești, lipscani, locuri

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“Omul hăituit capătă o încredere oarbă în destin, răspândită și transformată, cu timpul, într-un un adevărat corpus de superstiții cu caracter geografic.”
― Doina Ruști

tags: fugar

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“His death hit me hard, and I was never able to let him go. Even though I’d seen him dead and buried, the truth was that he had never really left me. I grew up measuring myself against him, counting the years, thinking: one day I’ll be as old as Tavică was.”
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