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In the mid-1980s, in Prespan, a sleepy town deep in the Bulgarian provinces, the campaign to force Bulgarian names on the Turkish minority is in full swing, while perestroika barely stirs. Neighbours who lived side by side in easy-going harmony suddenly bristle at each other like angry wasps; confusion and fear take hold, and the air crackles with a coming catastrophe. In a world where violence is not the exception but the setting, victims and tormentors swap roles without changing the rules. Told with a harsh naturalism rare in Bulgarian writing, the dark, often furious story follows its characters from the dusty streets of Prespan through a collapsing Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia to Berlin, asking how ordinary people who lived shoulder to shoulder come to see each other as enemies.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

288 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, 1980s

First published

2011 by Ciela

ISBN

9789542809432 (original)