Скарида

Diva Mila is a young, green-eyed fortune-teller whose predictions mostly come true. Bor is an insecure advertising man who has just lost his job and is in love with Asya, daughter of the Assistant, a former library student and state archives clerk who drew what he needed from the files and is now a feared mafia boss. Bor goes to work for his girlfriend's father and when a big deal is put at risk because fewer young people are buying drugs, the hopeless loser comes up with the scheme that puts him at the centre of things. In this satire of Bulgaria after socialism, politics runs on fortune-tellers' prophecies, obituaries become the strongest advertising, an ultra-secret society everyone knows about pulls strings, only a shrimp in a small aquarium knows how it will all end.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

296 pages in the original

First published

2015 by Obsidian

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789547693807 (original)