Керван за гарвани

In a small town in the Ludogorie, the north-eastern region also known as Deliorman, Nikolay Todorov is a faceless geography teacher in his forties, alone and wrestling with a sense of failure. A European project he wins makes him briefly famous, but at the banquet in his honour he cannot say aloud the furious speech about stale traditions racing through his head and is sick in the headmaster's lap. Tired of his life, he leaves to see whether reality can be different, meeting gamblers, drunks, a cobbler thrown out of the conservatoire and a phone scammer he falls for. Meanwhile Mila, worn out by Sofia, turns off her phone and escapes to the empty villages. Old Muhittin's memories of the years when Turks were forced to change their names bring the region's history in.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

176 pages in the original

First published

2021 by Faber

ISBN

9786190013129 (original)