Шлеп в пустинята
Shlep v pustinyata
“A Barge in the Desert” (title translated by AI)
Ludmil Todorov (Людмил Тодоров, born 1955)
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A teacher at the English-language high school in Ruse tells his story in a calm, deliberate monologue. From his eighth-floor balcony he has played the same game for years, timing the barges that slip behind a new block of flats on the Danube, until one goes behind it and never reappears. He posts his pregnant daughter on watch and runs down to the riverbank to look for it. From there unfolds the quiet life of an ordinary man with a large inner world he cannot put into words: a job he dislikes, a divorce without fuss, a child whose mistakes he takes as his own, and the struggle to carry one generation's values into new times as life carries him along like a barge.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 154 pages in the original
- First published
- 2012 by Janet 45
- Author's age
- 57 when first published
- ISBN
9789544919214 (original)