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A fatal car crash kills a Greek businessman and turns the life of his young wife, a Bulgarian journalist, upside down. A harsh truth comes to light, and she plunges into the depths of her family's history, looking for herself and for the strength to cope with the pain. Blending the autobiographical with the invented, the historical with the intimate, the fragmented story moves freely through time and space in many voices, a panopticon of small and large histories. It is a tale of the Balkans and their borders, which both join and divide, of torn lives, national complexes and the passions of proud men and women, and of the borders inside our own minds, told as a mother's confession to her son, who will carry on both life and the story.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

270 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, Greece

First published

2015 by Colibri

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9786191505029 (original)