Lit in Translation

Дишащия хълм

Dishashtia halm

“The Breathing Hill” (title translated by AI)

Beti Fayon (Бети Файон)

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Mari, an actress, is shooting a video film in which she is both star and director. Its hero is Mr A., a funny, sharp and sensitive gay man she has nicknamed the Breathing Hill, with whom she feels free to play, make things up and share her most private memories. Her video stories take place in a small town at the foot of the Hill, where the Snow White cave lies beneath it and the Anarchist's House, which the two of them bring back to life, stands nearby. Meanwhile a nameless voyeur reports what he sees late at night from his flat in the outer districts: couples behind half-drawn blinds, men leaning on balconies, old women framed in windows, children in the yard. As Mari loses track of where fiction ends and reality begins, Mr A. becomes ever more real and the voyeur's world ever more distant.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
104 pages in the original
First published
2010 by Ciela
ISBN

9789542807971 (original)