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Originally published in 2010, 2014, and 2017 respectively, “The Defeat of Grief,” “The Unfolding Map,” and “Visit of a Ghost”, these tales are woven together through Howard’s fictional Romanian town of Steaua de Munte, creating a loose but resonant trilogy.
„Balcic. What is there to say about the place? It was highly recommended to me. And already the town is taking me in, making me a part of its borderland existence. Balcic is thrown against its surrounding hills, its buildings scattered around like sown seeds on a resistant earth. Between the sea and the rest of Dobrogea – surrounded by those borders which so easily let in but which may be harder to pass through again. Unless … Balcic is so barely and still so newly in Romania, but we have made it ours. And already the town is making me belong to it.“