The Same Night Awaits Us All
Една и съща нощ · Edna i sashta nosht
Hristo Karastoyanov (Христо Карастоянов, born 1950)
Translated by Izidora Angel
English editions
In EnglishThe Same Night Awaits Us All
Open Letter · United States · 2018 · Paperback · 292 pages
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Between 1923 and 1925, after the June coup and around the bombing of Sofia's St Nedelya Church, among the bloodiest years in Bulgaria's modern history, the poet Geo Milev runs the literary magazine Plamak. It is paid for by his close friend and ally Georgi Sheitanov, an anarchist and polemicist who quietly hears out the poet's angry tirades and, Milev's wife Mila believes, draws him towards anarchism. Milev is hot-tempered and bluntly outspoken, devoted to literature and his family; Mila, gentle but strong, is the first to sense the storm gathering over him. Around them move the police agent Nikola Geshev and everyday informers, amid arrests and the censorship Milev mocks as police criticism. The story shifts between documentary chronicle and a present-day narrator's bitter commentary, kept as the diary of a novel.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 316 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Bulgaria, 1920s
- First published
- 2014 by Janet 45
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
9786191860319 (original)
9781940953687 (Open Letter, United States)