Cărtărescu aimed to stay within the conventions of the magazine, adopting a literary style less ambitious than in his novels, while avoiding being vulgar. The topics for the episodes were inspired by current affairs and a trip to Paris. The book consists of texts written for the free-of-charge leisure magazine Seven Nights and Cărtărescu has called it "a little book which I could say wrote itself", since the contract with the magazine meant that "even if you've run out of ideas and inspiration, every week you need to have a topic you've got to write about". Beautiful Strangers was the ninth best-selling book overall in Romania in 2010. Cărtărescu groups it with his earlier books The Encyclopedia of Dragons and Why We Love Women as a trilogy of prose with lower literary ambition. It consists of stories Cărtărescu wrote for the magazine Seven Nights. Beautiful Strangers ( Romanian: Frumoasele străine) is a 2010 prose collection by the Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu.
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