Adi Landau's Pearls
This is the story of a pair of pearl earrings, narrated by several generations. Story that starts from the Jewish ghetto in Vienna, passes through magnificent Ringstrasse palaces, a small mountain village in the Alps, the war-torn Europe, the concentration camp called "Kaylaka" and the rural town of Ferdinand. History of women and men, Jewish merchants and Austrian nobility, soldiers of the German Reich and Bulgarian partisans, a Viennese boy and a Sofia girl. The beginning is in the distant past, and the end - in the near future.
This is a story of the relentless vortex of time that imperceptibly turns people into heroes or victims, and often in both heroes and victims. Reflection on the choice and freedom. This is the way of people who hope and fear, who run away and get together - and everything is so accidental, and actually never is... accidental.
Sonya Todorova
Sonya Todorova (born 1979) studied Geodesy at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia and earned a doctoral degree in Advanced Geodesy at the Vienna University of Technology. Later on, in 2020, she graduated in Theatre-, Film-, and Media Studies at the Vienna University. Currently, Sonya works as a freelance translator, writer and contributing author for different Bulgarian media.
Her first book, "A Concise and Practical Guide to Survival for Families with Small Children and Others in Sofia" (Colibri, 2015), is a humorous, yet sharp social study of present-day life in her hometown and was nominated for the Outstanding Cultural Achievement Award of Sofia Municipality.
Sonya's debut novel, "Adi Landau's Pearls", was published in 2016. It was nominated for the 2016 "Helikon" Book Award for New Bulgarian Prose and shortlisted for the 2016 "Peroto" Award for Contribution to the Bulgarian Literary Context.
The stories in her latest book, "The Unknown Human Images" (2018), seem to lead through the reality of everyday life, while playing a sly game with the readers expectations. The short story collection was nominated for the 2018 "Helikon" Book Award for New Bulgarian Prose and for the First National Award for Literature "Yordan Radichkov" 2020.
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