Улици и кораби

After a book in which a village on the Danube was dying, these stories move to a big Danube city that is dying too, a city of atlantes and gorgons beneath the balconies where people listen to Bach and Shostakovich. Many of the characters return from the village book and again live, love and die beside the great river, from the second half of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. With fewer miracles in the city and its clocks running faster, they turn the small details of their lives into rituals to feed their thirst for myth. There is no dialogue at all.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

184 pages in the original

Set in

Bulgaria

First published

2017 by Faber

ISBN

9786190006084 (original)