Паякът

In a dull but quiet provincial town that gangs have always passed by, a lonely man whom nobody ever notices, a reader who never writes, glimpses an unknown woman and spins a story around her, half romance, half literature. Taking himself for a spider, he sets out to deal retribution to the men listed in her phone. One morning the whole town is talking about Petar Dragolov, a businessman, benefactor and playboy found dead with his throat torn out. Neither the police nor the anonymous know-alls of the local online forum, latter-day versions of the gossips of Bulgaria's classic novels, get to the bottom of the killings. Set in the years of the transition, the novel turns quotations from the national literary canon inside out, while its hero weaves an empty web in which he is the only inhabitant.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

204 pages in the original

First published

2010 by Janet 45

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789544915964 (original)