The Wolves of Staro Selo

Staro Selo is a deprived neighbourhood in Bulgaria where joblessness, violence and graft fill daily life and crime decides people's fates. Dimitar has grown rich by ruling it through terror. Against him stands old Elena, a healer with something of the witch about her, who refuses to accept the wrongs done to her neighbours, a choice that will cost her whole family. Portraying the life of a Roma community with passion, by turns heartbreaking and wildly funny, the novel gives its strongest voices to stubborn, earthy women and to children, who fight disgust with persistence, irony and mercy, and it blends the fantastical with the real.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

296 pages in the original

First published

2022 by Janet 45

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9786191867202 (original)

9781738459421 (Héloïse Press, United Kingdom)