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Petru Popescu (born February 1, 1944, in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian-American writer, director and film producer, author of the novels Almost Adam and Amazon Beaming.
Petru Popescu (n. 1 februarie 1944, București) este un scriitor, scenarist și regizor de filme american de origine română . Viața și cariera. În România. Petru Popescu s-a născut într-o familie de intelectuali. Tatăl său, Radu Popescu, era un cunoscut critic de teatru, iar mama, Nelly Cutava, actriță la Teatrul Nottara.
Petru Popescu has 47 books on Goodreads with 5758 ratings. Petru Popescu’s most popular book is Almost Adam.
Petru Popescu is the author of Almost Adam (3.61 avg rating, 658 ratings, 71 reviews, published 1996), Prins (4.05 avg rating, 368 ratings, 17 reviews, p...
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Petru Popescu. Born in Bucharest in 1944, Petru Popescu was Communist Romania’s most provocative young novelist, before he was forced to defect and start writing in English. His Romanian novels Captured and Burial of the Vine are classics of the resistance against totalitarian art.
Stranded in the African savanna, paleoanthropologist Ken Lauder encounters the inconceivable--a protohuman boy from a breed thought to have been extinct for two million years. From this irresistible "what if" premise, Popescu blends fascinating scientific speculation with scientific fact to explore the mysteries of how we become "human." 4 ...
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Petru Popescu was one of Romania's leading young authors when he immigrated to the United States in 1974. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Amazon Beaming and Almost Adam, and the critically acclaimed memoirs The Return and The Oasis.
