Four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region: 
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●	An American expat in Europe appropriates the identity of a Romanian orphan in her desperate search for love. 
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●	A dictator&apos;s daughter learns, while on a study trip to France, that her parents have been overthrown and are about to be executed. 
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●	A minor character from a novel confronts her own insignificance. 
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A wife announces to her husband of forty years that she&apos;s just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Quaternity. Four Novellas from the Carpathians