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These stories jump between Sofia, Kragujevac, Kosovo, Rhodes, London, New York and space, and from the present to the past and the future, in a world where the real merges with the unreal and news bulletins and online chatter seep into the telling. Love seems to be missing altogether: beautiful women end up cut to pieces, and executioners have formed a trade union. A Bulgarian expert on deconstruction steals a village postwoman's bicycle so as not to be late for a conference with Derrida in Sofia. A young chancer grabs an international grant meant for gifted young Bulgarian artists, speaks no English, and lands in a hole in a New York ghetto with mountains of tinned food to last his three months. And a cosmonaut has nothing left to eat but his own body.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

231 pages in the original

First published

2002 by Zvezdan

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9789548307215 (original)