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Tag "Contemporary Bulgarian Prose"

Mrs. Baeva

2 June, 2009 от zdravka evtimova · No comments

Zdravka Evtimova

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I was carefully curling her thin hair that I had dyed from sickly blond to russet ginger more times than I could remember. I was using vintage silver rollers with the initials of the German company Kipheuer-Witsch, her scull under my fingers as brittle as paper, her shoulders almost intangible under the heavy [...]

Blood of a Mole

28 April, 2009 от zdravka evtimova · 1 comment

Zdravka Evtimova

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Few customers visit my shop, perhaps three or four people a day. They look at the animals in the cages and seldom buy them. The room is narrow and there is no place for me behind the counter, so I usually sit on my old moth-eaten chair behind the door. I [...]

Reviews of Ludmila Filipova’s novel “Glass Butterflies”

27 April, 2009 от Ludmila Filipova · 1 comment

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With her novel “Glass Butterflies” Ludmila Filipova has asserted herself as a capable and experienced author ready to enter unknown and virgin territory. “Glass Butterflies” is written in modern style and contains both attractive and clear messages. It stands out among the most precious achievements of the contemporary Bulgarian prose, a phenomenon which is [...]

Reviews of Ludmila Filipova’s novel “The Parchment Maze”

22 April, 2009 от Ludmila Filipova · No comments

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Ancient myths from both Bulgaria and the world, historical sources along with a lot fictionalized past, quoted manuscripts with lost ends, roads that cross, and characters in whose destinies events from more than a century and a half ago come together: these are only some of the ideas behind “The Parchment Maze”.
The intricate [...]