Годината, която започна в неделя
Godinata, koyato zapochna v nedelya
“The Year That Began on a Sunday” (title translated by AI)
Yanitsa Radeva (Яница Радева, born 1977)
English editions
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The novel covers one calendar year, 1967, from Sunday to Sunday, on Mechta (Dream) Street in a small provincial town, a quiet ghetto of progress that many readers recognise as Yambol. At its heart are little Yoanna, who sees the world with a child's imagination, and her grandmother, known as the Lady, a reserved intellectual and survivor forced to play a role in life as well as on stage. Around them move a builder with a hidden past, an informer who passes for a friend, and women workers with their routine feats and fragile hopes, all caught in a shared fatalism. Through photos, newspapers, celebrations, a factory of the future and snowballs, the story pulses between today, those years and an even older time, while a phobioscope hidden by Yoanna's father is meant to drive fear away.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 186 pages in the original
- Set in
- Bulgaria
- First published
- 2024 by Janet 45
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9786191868902 (original)