Lit in Translation

Затворисърце

Zatvorisartse

“Close-Your-Heart” (title translated by AI)

Konstantin Trendafilov (Константин Трендафилов)

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Two men who have nothing in common except the scars left by earlier loves meet by chance and begin to tell each other their lives, openly and without fear. Their stories stretch from Bulgaria's transition years after 1989 to the present, moving between Sofia and a country house in the foothills of the Balkan range, and the book follows how their friendship grows and whether they can get past their differences. Love for a woman is only one thread: guilt keeps drawing both men back to old wrongs, and the novel turns to other kinds of love as well, up to the love of God and the longing for peace of mind.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
312 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Bulgaria, 1990s–2010s
First published
2017 by Janet 45
ISBN

9786191863143 (original)