
The solidarity of chameleons is iron stiff. One has understood it too late but as the saying is: Better never than
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Peter is a very ordinary kind of boy “living in the streets”. He’s a smart and ambitious youngster who believes that after being discharged he would lead a normal and peaceful life – education, work, career, money, family,
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Far from Toledo is part two of Angel Wagenstein's triptych on the fate of European Jews during World War II. Apart from Bulgaria the book has been published both separately and together in Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Italy, Poland, Macedonia,
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The Bulgarian author and screenwriter Wagenstein devotes his powerful novel to an affable Jewish tailor from a small town in Eastern Europe who survives the reigns of Hitler and Stalin. Wagenstein himself escaped from a concentration camp and was
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The trilogy of Angel Wagenstein (Isaac's Torah, Far from Toledo and Farewell Shanghai) is dadicated to the fate of the European Jewish people during the World War II. Published not only in Bulgaria, but also in Germany, France and Russia with a
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Moving effortlessly from Paris to Dresden to Shanghai, Wagenstein (Isaac's Torah) masterfully chronicles the lives of European émigrés and refugees in WWII Shanghai. The cast of this ensemble novel is large. Elisabeth and Theodore
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This is a novel of a life crucified between laughter and sadness, hopes and collapses, ups and downs. The author shares his cherished memories of the Neolithic era - a world full of loyalty and betrayal, violence and light impulses. Feel free to
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“Tarpani” won the national competition “Hr. G. Danov” (1990). It has received the award “Plovdiv” (1993) and the National Award “Svetlostrui” (1993). “Tarpani” has been adapted for the
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A non-existent husband, an unsold piano, a clumsily traded nightmare, and a sloppy intellectual forgotten in a second-hand bookstore… These are only some of the heroes, or perhaps the true members of Readers’ Group 31. Imagination and irony thread
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What happens with a man when the divine materializes and grabs him? Is it so simple to handle your own doubts? Is it so unforgivable to have them? Which is worse – to have or not to have them? If one cannot survive without God, then how can one
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The Knight, the Devil, and Death tells the story of a middle-aged man and his infatuation with a much younger woman, the ordinariness of the story, however, being used as a device to foreground the deep collision between real and unreal, loss and
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It’s wintertime. Philip, the protagonist in the story, slowly finds his way through the thick mountain woods to a small village, and, eventually, to his grandfather’s abandoned house. Someone is chasing him. Once in the house, he finds a dead man
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01 - Bulgaria – a country with thousands of years of history, mother of the Cyrillic alphabet, the computer and the yoghurt; the country of the roses, vast mountains, clean beaches, beautiful women and cheap liquor. If you, as well, live with
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02 is an “existential” sequel to Ivaylo Borisov’s “improper novel”.
The protagonist, born at an inopportune time and place, had made an easy social leap forward in view of post-totalitarian conditions in Bulgaria and
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