A review by abetterbradley
The Prince's Boy by Paul Bailey

3.0

I really enjoyed "The Prince's Boy'". The title character is a man named Razvan. He was adopted by a prince, taken away from the country and taught how to be civilized and to move among the elite. Then the prince died and Razvan was left helpless and alone. But,even though the book is called "The Prince's Boy" it's really about a boy named Dinu.

Dinu is mourning his mother and is sent from Bucharest to Paris by his wealthy father to have one bohemian summer. Dinu is set up in an apartment and watched over by his cousin, Eduard.

Dinu is in Paris and he meets Razvan. The two begin a love affair that fuels the book and the passage of time because the book starts in 1927 and goes through 1967.

This book is a sad love story and my only fault is the abrupt ending.