Jocul celor o sută de frunze şi alte povestiri

These six stories show fear and doubt in Romanian life. They also show wounds that have yet to heal. Varujan Vosganian links the past to the present through memory. He uses magical realism, which blends real life with magic. The book warns of the risk of repeating the past. People face that risk when they fail to face it.

The stories mourn a lost generation. Strange events and people touched by magic shape that grief. Vosganian writes in a spare style with a poet’s words. This pocket edition forms part of the TOP 10+ series.

The book earned two prose nominations in 2014. They came from Radio România Cultural and Observator cultural. It also earned a Romanian Writers’ Union nomination for 2013. But Vosganian withdrew from the final selection.