Българчето от Аляска
Balgarcheto ot Alyaska
“The Little Bulgarian from Alaska” (title translated by AI)
Deyan Enev (Деян Енев, born 1960)
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Spare, gloomy stories bound to the streets of Sofia, about people who keep losing something while they wrestle with life in today's Bulgaria, where the best anyone can hope for is to survive, or to get away to Alaska. An unemployed couple turns their home into an erotic massage parlour. A father and his daughter gaze at the wreckage of monumental socialism on their way to McDonald's. A librarian takes leave of a community reading room that is becoming a cable television studio. An ordinary man suffers from his own indifference and cannot shake it off. Autobiographical moments are stronger than usual, and about half the book, the section called Silver Mountains, is made up less of stories than of sketches drawn from the city's streets.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 139 pages in the original
- First published
- 2011 by Ciela
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9789542810315 (original)