Contemporary Bulgarian Fiction

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#LiveFromSofia
Alexander Shpatov

#LiveFromSofia

Twentieth-century masters of the short story – Yovkov, Elin Pelin, Radichkov – perfectly captured the spirit and voice of rural Bulgaria; as their twenty-first century heir, Alexander Shpatov offers a brilliant take on urban Bulgaria,
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#LiveFromSofia
Alexander Shpatov

#LiveFromSofia

There are many stories about the village in Bulgarian literature, and we always have to specify when it comes to short urban stories. Well, these are exactly short urban Sofia stories, written live, so that we could experience the city
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Domestic apocalypse (English)
Rositsa Tasheva

Domestic apocalypse (English)

Rositsa Tasheva has three books to her credit and they have established her as a talented humorist. She was born in 1946 in Sofia, where she has graduated from an English Language High School and then – from the French philology Department at
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Firewalker
Dimana Trunkova

Firewalker

An American journalist and his young ex-pat Bulgarian wife arrive in Bulgaria to spend a few weeks with the parents-in-law. As John struggles to come to grips with the least known land in Europe, a series of gruesome murders of historia
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Double Gimlet
Mariana Tsarkova

Double Gimlet

The Ministry of Good Mood, Colibri Publishers and Mariana Tsarkova, the author, most seriously recommend you lots of laughter with their new book "Double gimlet"! Get ready for a firework of wit, intelligent and friendly humor and just a little
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The Chronicles of the Unit
Andrey Velkov

The Chronicles of the Unit

As a sequel to "Bulgarian Psycho", "The Chronicles of the Unit" develops some characters in the first novel. Again the place of action is Bulgaria and the plot overflows with battle stories, action scenes and schemes. The book is addresse
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Lost in the Mall
Chavdar Shinov

Lost in the Mall

I don’t know if the book will be decorated with photos of the author... In any case, you should know that he was endowed by the Creator with impressive dimensions… So it is a wonder that a man of such dimensions can hide that tend
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02. Existential Novel
Ivaylo Borisov

02. Existential Novel

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 Bulgari
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Bulgarian Psycho
Andrey Velkov

Bulgarian Psycho

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, c
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Mail-Jazz
Olga Shurbanova

Mail-Jazz

This book is not a novel, neither an essay or any other documentary work. In this book there are memories, proverbs, tales, dreams, fantasies, and short portraits of the present. We may call it an evidence of two epochs - of the lives of the aut
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A Virtual Novel
Mariana Tsarkova

A Virtual Novel

This is a novel about the Internet addiction: the intrusive wish to surf the net and not to be able to stay offline. And what's next: a virtual love, virtual loneliness, virtual sex. This is a novel about the escape from reality and its consequence
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Before the End of the World
Angel Wagenstein

Before the End of the World

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. Fee
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Isaac's Torah
Angel Wagenstein

Isaac's Torah

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 ca
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Far from Toledo
Angel Wagenstein

Far from Toledo

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,
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Perfectly 1
Rumen Alexov

Perfectly 1

This is a crime novel about the years after 1989 in Bulgaria. There are many scientific inventions, dark deals, homosexual relationships and money in nowadays Bulgaria, written in a witty and funny way.
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Traumaturgy
Tsvetan Marangozov

Traumaturgy

The solidarity of chameleons is iron stiff. One has understood it too late but as the saying is: Better never than later.
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Around the World with Yana
Doncho Papazov

Around the World with Yana

An adventurous book about a trip round the world on the Tivia yacht. A journey of a brave family in search for their dreams.
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Sabazius
Kristin Dimitrova

Sabazius

…Sabazius – the foreigner, the liberator, the blood-thirsty fiend, the drunkard, the liar, the debaucher, the ascetic, the handsome one, the mad and unacknowledged god – came late on Olympus, although he was more ancient
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My Asia
Rayko Mateev

My Asia

My Asia proves that overcoming our fears, including the fear of being free, shows many a roads: the road to the sea; the road to delight; and the road to Asia. This is a story about adventures, travels and the "maypenray" philosop
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“Tarpani” (Wild Horses)
Dimitar Atanasov

“Tarpani” (Wild Horses)

“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 a
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Letters to Myself
Vasil Kinov

Letters to Myself

"Letters to Myself" is the last book of Vasil Kinov. It was published posthumously.
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As for Highlander
Rositsa Tasheva

As for Highlander

In this novel Rositsa Tasheva remains loyal to her attachment to the subtle smile, to the irony and when necessary – the open sarcasm. The main character of this novel is a charming loser who has strange conceptions about life and living.
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01
Ivaylo Borisov

01

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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The Children of the Dragon
Pavel Petkov

The Children of the Dragon

“The Children of the Dragon” urges you on immersing in the stunning world of contemporary China, where Pavel Petkov spent two years as a lecturer in local university and shares his impressions with the reader. The events and adventu
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She Is Here
Elena Alexieva

She Is Here

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
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Maze for Romantic Minotaurs
Svetlana Dicheva

Maze for Romantic Minotaurs

The new novel by Svetlana Dicheva “Maze for Romantic Minotaurs” (under the name of “Broken bed”) won one of the special prizes in the competition on the international project “Myths” of the Scottish publish
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Farewell, Shanghai
Angel Wagenstein

Farewell, Shanghai

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 Theod
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The Dog
Vasil Kinov

The Dog

“The Dog” is a novel about man’s inner world, about the man-dog’s world… Through the eyes of the protagonist, Vasil Kinov displays the image of our time – quite vicious and often hopeless. The man-dog imitates li
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The Knight, the Devil and Death
Elena Alexieva

The Knight, the Devil and Death

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 ho
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The World around Me
Mariana Furkova

The World around Me

Mariana Farkova’s novel “The World around Me”, not awarded with any Bulgarian literary prize (which in some sense is a virtue) beats the records with the numerous publicity in “Literaturen vestnik”. No other Bulgari
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God's Pupil
Nellie Lishkovska

God's Pupil

The short stories in this book were written in the past 18 years. They do not claim to give any general conclusions, they are more likely to introduce us the shattered pieces of our world. Pieces of the mirror, in which everybody stares, during
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My Story
Janina Dragostinova

My Story

After “Your Story”, without hesitation, the author steps through the boundary of journalism with the book “My Story”. In a way a continuation, it presents us with a series of “instant photos” of our most rece
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Who?
Elena Alexieva

Who?

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, the
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Night Birds
Vasil Kinov

Night Birds

The protagonists, Miro and Valeria meet each other accidentally one night “soaked with alcohol”. This is a confession, a conversation with no dominating social and political realities, but truly rediscovering the human soul. In t
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Of Diplomats and Men
Rositsa Tasheva

Of Diplomats and Men

In this book with a title borrowed from both Shakespeare and Steinbeck the reader meets the officials of the Bulgarian Embassy in Paris at the time of the great political changes in Eastern Europe which gave birth to democracy and many absurditie
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Readers’ Group 31
Elena Alexieva

Readers’ Group 31

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
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Mona and Magellan
Svetlana Dicheva

Mona and Magellan

"The first impression this book leaves on the reader is compressed to the point of explosion fictional onset. A person’s life flows by like a film reel in the stream of consciousness. However, this is not a kaleidoscope of selecte
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Demons' Hour
Vasil Kinov

Demons' Hour

The author says that change is the most certain thing in life. When he was five years old, his mother showed him the Trojan monastery. Since then he treats the unexplainable with respect. It's not unusual for his books to contain "a part of God".
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Domestic Apocalypse
Rositsa Tasheva

Domestic Apocalypse

Rositsa Tasheva has three books to her credit and they have established her as a talented humorist. She was born in 1946 in Sofia, where she has graduated from an English Language High School and then – from the French philology Department
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One Week in Paradise
Zlatko Enev

One Week in Paradise

The characters of this book experience many funny and sad adventures but what is most important are probably the questions they face. Questions like: Who are we? Where is our place in Europe and in the world? What makes us vulnerabl
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Red Shorts
Velina Minkoff

Red Shorts

While majoring in English at UCLA, Velina Minkoff applied for the Creative Writing Fiction program. There, she studied with contemporary American writers Aimee Bender and Carolyn See, among others. There was considerable interest in her

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