num_pages: 480
description: This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts college town. The narrative is split between our world and the people in Roumania working to protect or to capture Miranda: her Aunt Aegypta Schenck versus the mad Baroness Ceaucescu in Bucharest, and the sinister alchemist, the Elector of Ratisbon, who holds her true mother prisoner in Germany. This is the story of how Miranda -- with her two best friends, Peter and Andromeda -- is brought back to her home reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will have much to learn about their true identities and the strange world they find themselves in.This story is a triumph of contemporary fantasy.
language: English
title: A Princess of Roumania
titlecomplete: A Princess of Roumania (Princess of Roumania, #1)
genres: Fiction, Alternate History, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, Adventure
ratings_count: 671
series: Princess of Roumania
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Sidewise Award
category: Alternate History
publisher: Tor Fantasy