И леглото ни е зеленина

Ivan Klyandov is born in 1893 in Krushovo, a village in Ottoman Macedonia, the eldest son of the potter Atanas. A thoughtful, well-read boy, he has to grow up fast: he is married and a father while still a child, and when his part in his father's revolutionary committee work gets him into trouble, he flees to America. In Chicago he spends four years working in an Armenian sweet shop, becomes almost a son to its owner Simon, and falls in love. A sense of duty calls him back to his family through the years of war, as they move to Melnik and then to Sofia. Drawing on the diary of the author's great-grandmother, the novel sets side by side two possible lives that branch from his choices, on the blurred line between waking and dream.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

429 pages in the original

First published

2024 by Janet 45

ISBN

9786191869282 (original)