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A book of very short stories, funny and absurd, melancholy and ironic at once, illustrated by Lyuba Haleva. Among them are selected autobiographies, a census of the night watch, the three times X.X. was happy, a proofreader's fear of mistakes, a rooster in Sofia's Pirogov hospital, a ginkgo biloba in New York and the angel of unread books. The pieces move between life and literature, childhood and death, like jottings from a writer's notebook; flies and the ghost of socialism keep returning. An afterword defends brevity in talkative times, when a good short story can teach the worth of every word and every minute.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

139 pages in the original

First published

2018 by Janet 45

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9786191864232 (original)