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In 1972 a group of young people in Ruse and Varna set up an illegal organisation to fight the communist regime. State Security kept a file, code-named Conspirators, on how its apparatus uncovered and neutralised the dangerous group. Half a lifetime later, the novel builds on that document and wakes the voices of a world where friendship is betrayal, trust is deception and reality is fiction. Told with the tools of documentary realism, between memoir and fiction, it is a portrait of 1970s Bulgaria in which only the human fates of the people watched and manipulated by State Security, its targets and its informers alike, turn out to be real, in an absurd, closed time when wanting something different already counts as conspiracy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

172 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, 1970s

First published

2010 by Fama

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9789545973819 (original)