Lit in Translation

Отклонения наесен

Otklonenia naesen

“Detours in Autumn” (title translated by AI)

Chavdar Tsenov (Чавдар Ценов, born 1956)

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Five short novellas that slip through unseen gaps in everyday life into strange, deep and melancholy worlds, passing from the language of offices, clichés and officialdom to the intimate and human. In the first, a clerk named Vatsev loses his way on the road to work, and his detours open onto corridors of resentment, things never forgiven, cowardice, the dreams he once had and the girls he never pursued. Elsewhere small things prove large: a slightly torn flag, a bicycle that may have been stolen, a word that seems to say nothing, a single wine.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
232 pages in the original
First published
2015 by Janet 45
Author's age
59 when first published
ISBN

9786191861200 (original)