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R.M. Romero
DEATH’S COUNTRY takes place in the same world! TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST is set in a brand new one.
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THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL was a challenge! It took me about six months to write because with poetry, every word is important. I always read poetry and loved it, so I thought a lot about my favorite poets (ee cummings, Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard Siken) and reread their work as I drafted the book.
Using matzevot as building materials was unfortunately very common throughout Eastern and Central Europe after WW2. Just like in the book, the main square of Prague is indeed partially made from Jewish headstones.
I visited Prague for a week in 2017 with my sister. It’s a truly magical city.
Thank you! My next book, A WARNING ABOUT SWANS, is now out in the world.
Using matzevot as building materials was unfortunately very common throughout Eastern and Central Europe after WW2. Just like in the book, the main square of Prague is indeed partially made from Jewish headstones.
I visited Prague for a week in 2017 with my sister. It’s a truly magical city.
Thank you! My next book, A WARNING ABOUT SWANS, is now out in the world.
R.M. Romero
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I love these questions! That’s what I imagined too—that he was probably banished in the late 1700s, when Jews started to return to Bavaria after a long period of exile themselves.
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I always imagined that the two stories took place in the same world, yes!
R.M. Romero
I was in Kraków for about a week in 2005. But the city made a huge impression on me that I could remember it clearly nine years later when I started writing in DOLLMAKER. I went back in 2016 and I'll be visiting again this summer. Kraków is a beautiful city--how fantastic that you're living there!
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