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Characters

Dan Creţu or Dan Kretzu, 43, a stranger found unconscious in a forest at the edge of Bucharest

The Margulis family:

— Leon, physician, 47

— Agatha, his wife, 42

— Iulia, their daughter, 21

— Jacques (Iacob), their son, 10

Nicu (Niculae Stanciu, Nicuşor), 8, courier for Universul newspaper, the character who links all the other characters

Costache Boerescu, Chief of Public Security, deputy to the Prefect of Police, a friend of Leon and Agatha Margulis since their youth

General Ion Algiu, former Prefect of Police, friend of Costache Boerescu

Caton Lecca, current Prefect of Police

The Livezeanu family:

— Alexandru, aristocrat, homme à femmes

— Mihai (Mişu), studying Medicine in Paris

— Marioara, divorced, with three children, including twins Anica and Ștefan

— Maria and Hristea, parents of the above

Nicu’s mother, mentally ill washerwoman

Staff of Universul newspaper:

— Old man Cercel, the porter

— Neculai Procopiu, 43, the longest-serving newspaperman at Universul

— The brothers Mirto: Peppin, translator, proof reader, optimist, endowed with an operatic singing voice, and Pavel (Păvălucă), editor, introvert, pessimist, writing a novel

vThe Director, Italian Luigi Cazzavilan

Petre, coachman of Inger the pastry maker

Dr Rosenberg, runs the House of Health establishment on Strada Teilor (Lindens Street)

Mr and Mrs Movileanu, lawyer and his wife, resident on Strada Teilor

Epiharia, devout woman who frequents the Icoanei Church, preparing to become a nun

Fane, alias the Ringster, crook

Episodic characters

George Lahovary, newspaperman, director of the French-language L’Indépendance Roumaine, slain in a duel at the age of 43 by Nicu Filipescu (former Mayor of Bucharest, who ordered the demolition of the Sărindar Church)

Metropolitan Ghenadie, involved in a scandal culminating in the theft of a miracle-working icon

Dimitrie Gerota, physician, friend of Dr Margulis

Vasilica, Iulia’s cousin

Marwan, photographer for Universul

Elena Turnescu, widow of an eminent surgeon, involved in charitable works

Signor Giuseppe, Italian neighbour of the Margulis family

Otto, ethnic German from Transylvania who has come to the capital to work as a church painter

The wounded young aristocrat (Rareş-Ochiu-Zănoagă)

Coachmen: Yevdoshka (Russian Old Believer), Budacu and Ilie (in the employ of the Police)

Toader, servant of the Livezeanu family

Margareta, one of Alexandru Livezeanu’s mistresses

Pet animals

Liza, Costache’s old dog, Lord, General Algiu’s Borzoi hound,

Fira the cow, a fridge magnet, Speckle, Nicu’s pigeon

Unconventional characters

Bucharest, Capital of Romania

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