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A girl grows up in a small provincial town over the last few decades, and her coming of age reflects the changes that swept through Bulgarian society as a whole. Each chapter opens with a frame from an imagined strip of film, and together the frames hold a love stretched between two continents, a family secret kept for years, a violin with a mission and the prophecies four high-school friends once wrote on slips of paper. Later the heroine leaves to study abroad and faces the slow, painful work of adapting to a new place. It is a novel about growing up and reaching the edge of childhood, and about friendship and gratitude, which the sunflowers of the title stand for in Van Gogh's paintings.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

312 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria

First published

2024 by Colibri

ISBN

9786190214540 (original)