Лала боса

Very short stories, some only a sentence or two long, at once as fragile as charcoal sketches and as hard as cast bronze. This collection is darker than the earlier ones: abandoned, crumbling houses whose owners have emigrated or died, children's toys found in an attic years later, bought once on a small wage, and generations split between Bulgaria and abroad who see each other only over Skype. The title story, two sentences long, joins past and present, a path of cement under a vine beside an adobe house on the edge of Sofia and a French town near the Atlantic. Faint lights of faith and hope still shine through, and the stories are arranged so that they speak to each other.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

108 pages in the original

First published

2019 by Riva

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789543206841 (original)