Crown of Clowns - Couverture souple

Mensch, Victoria M

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798295579165

Editeur : Mpm Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

In the blizzard-swept night of January 1911, Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria-a vain, predatory monarch obsessed with resurrecting a Third Empire-strands his hunting party in the peasant village of Pravetz. Seeking "comfort," he summons local women, his gaze fixing on Marutsa, a married beauty from the Danube north. What begins as royal entitlement spirals into a violation that echoes through decades, birthing a son whose ambiguous bloodline will reshape Bulgaria's fate. From Sofia's gilded balls to the trenches of the Balkan Wars, Ferdinand grooms Crown Prince Boris-sheltered, melancholic, not yet seventeen-in the brutal arts of power, pleasure, and secrecy. Eleonora endures her unloved marriage with stoic grace, while General Nikolaev whispers of crumbling empires and wolves at the door. But the real shadow falls over Marutsa's boy, Todor: rising from village obscurity through partisan ranks to Communist iron grip, does he carry the Saxe-Coburg stain? Spanning from 1911 to 1956, Crown of Clowns unveils the grotesque ironies of Balkan history-monarchy's clowns seeding red tyranny, rewritten birthdays masking bastard crowns. Blending exhaustive historical detail with unflinching intimacy, Victoria M. Mensch (pen name not to be affiliated with any other person by this or similar name) delivers the epic capstone to the Bulgarian Shadows trilogy: a savage meditation on power's illegitimacy, where tsars and communist party secretaries wear the same fool's cap. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Historian, and Wolf Hall-where royal appetites devour nations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Victoria M. Mensch (pen name, which is not affiliated with any other person by this or similar name) is Professor of Data Science in a leading university in Canada. She is the author of over 200 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and four books on history and data science. Her h-index is greater than 35 and her i-10 index is greater than 93. She is devoted wife and mother of three children, two boys and a girl.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mpm Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798295579165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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