Аутопсия на една любов

Charlie, a jazz musician named after Charlie Parker who never quite made it in the West and lives in Germany, comes back to Bulgaria on his annual leave and meets Ina, a fatal woman with an unexpected calling: to be someone's sinful instrument. Sex and music become one and the same as the novel dissects their love at every stage. Around them a lost generation of musicians falls apart: a friend has a heart attack in the middle of a concert, another hangs himself after being laid off, others open bars or turn to chalga, and the 'heavenly big band' keeps growing. Moving between Bulgaria at the end of the 1960s and present-day Europe, it is a sarcastic, frank confession about self-destruction and the artist pushed to the margins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

442 pages in the original

First published

2005 by Biblioteka 48

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789547930216 (original)