Books set in Bulgaria (21)
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Novela natural by Gueorgui Gospodinov ES
BulgariaDescription:
Un editor recibe, como tantas veces, un sobre con material para ser publicado, aunque sin los datos del remitente; luego de diferir su lectura un tiempo, cuando finalmente la lee se queda admirado e inicia la búsqueda de su autor misterioso. Se puede adelantar que el buscado es un tal Georgi (o Gueorgui) Gospodinov.
En el camino habrá una silla mecedora, un divorcio, amagues de escribir una novela con los comienzos de novelas clásicas, y muchas plantas, como en una Historia natural del siglo XIX.
Y en el centro una novela escrita de manera natural, incluyendo cuotas de h... continue
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Stork Mountain : A Novel by Miroslav Penkov EN
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"A young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three years ago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains--a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths"--Amazon.com.
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Street Without A Name : Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova EN
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Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. Thirty years later, as Bulgaria was joining the EU club, Kapka revisited the country of her childhood and her own relationship to it to discover just how much it - and she - had changed. With the irreverence of an expat, the curiosity of a visitor, and the soul of a poet, Kassabova brings to life the past and present of Bulgaria, as well as probing the complicated connection between place a... continue
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The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov EN
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Using the myth of the Minotaur as its organising image, the narrator of Gospodinov's long-awaited novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family, jumping from era to era and viewpoint to viewpoint, exploring the mind-set and trappings of Eastern Europeans. Shortlisted for prizes around the world, Georgi Gospodinov's thrilling new novel will appeal to fans of Dave Eggers, Tom McCarthy and Dubravka Ugresic for its unique structure, humanitarian concerns and stunning storytelling.
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Time Shelter : A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov EN
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An award-winning international sensation—with a second-act dystopian twist—Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. “At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ.” But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a “vagrant in time” who has distanced his li... continue
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Una canción del ser y la apariencia by Cees Nooteboom ES
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
El ser y la apariencia confunden sus límites en esta breve novela, una inteligente y bellísima reflexión sobre la creación literaria. Un escritor que lleva mucho tiempo sin escribir ficciones, mientras habla con otro escritor de su trabajo, crea dos personajes ;un doctor y un coronel; en cuya historia está trabajando. De aquí se desprenden varias evocaciones de los personajes que saldrán de su inexistencia para cobrar forma como el doctor Stefan Ficev y el coronel Georgiev Liuben. Los lectores conocerán algunos aspectos del doctor Ficev, así como las ideas del coronel Liuben, lector de Schopen... continue
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Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov EN
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Under the Yoke is a novel by Ivan Vazov written in 1888. It depicts the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and is the most famous piece of classic Bulgarian literature. The tranquillity in a Bulgarian village under Ottoman rule is only superficial: the people are quietly preparing for an uprising. The plot follows the story of Boicho Ognyanov, who, having escaped from a prison in Diarbekir, returns to the Bulgarian town of Byala Cherkva to take part in the rebellion. There he meets old friends, enemies, and the love of his life. The plot portrays the personal drama of the characters, their emotions, mot... continue
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Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon their land and traditional way of life. Darkly comic and tragic, the novel centers on an ill-fated winter hunting expedition of six neighbors whose history together is long and interwoven. The ensuing story takes the reader on a voyage of shifting perspectives that places the calamitous history of twentieth-century Bulgaria into a human context of helplessness and desperation.
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Yo Sigo Contando Los Días by Georgi Bardarov ES
Description:
This novel is based on a true story, the love between a Christian man and a Muslim woman in the midst of the horror of the Bosnian war and the longest blockade in the history of humanity of a city: that of Sarajevo ́s. The two protagonists, Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic, are known as the "Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo". The novel recounts the last hours of their attempt to escape from besieged Sarajevo, on May 19, 1993, while in this context a retrospective is made, both of their relationship, and of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the senselessness of the war.