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“All Stories Are About You” (title translated by AI)

Mirela Ivanova (Мирела Иванова, born 1962)

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Twelve stories that read as fragments of the present and of their readers' own lives. The characters, from lecturers and doctors to musicians, photographers, painters and the homeless, are crushed by the political and social absurdities of their time or rush after half-understood recipes for success, and rarely find a moment alone with themselves. The stories ask whether we lose ourselves when we lose love, how far the long shadows of the past reach, and how to stitch together biographies split in two by the end of communism. In one, Kamelia, a doctor worn down by patients, an ailing family and a daughter about to leave for a university in America, writes a love letter to the friend she has loved for seventeen years while away at a congress.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
132 pages in the original
First published
2014 by Prozorets
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9789547338012 (original)