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“Resistance.NET” (title translated by AI)

Hristo Karastoyanov (Христо Карастоянов, born 1950)

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The setting is a provincial madhouse, a place outside any sense of space and time, where Hitler is still alive and quarrels with Elvis Presley, three Russian cosmonauts breakfast on cheap vodka, yellow-eyed witches speak Aramaic, dwarfs sell fake Teflon pans and the skeletons of everyone who ever waited for the bus stand at the stop. Its patients, among them a prima donna Elvis, an ageing Charlie Chaplin, a cocky Man from Yambol and a hapless Hitler forever carrying an empty shopping bag, learn that bureaucrats want to close the hospital and cash in on the building by declaring them cured and turning them out onto the street. Terrified of losing their warm refuge, they put up a fragile resistance guided only by the trembling logic of dreams, while hundreds of pages from other books turn up in the most unlikely places.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
244 pages in the original
First published
2008 by Janet 45
Author's age
58 when first published
ISBN

9789544914059 (original)