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1) Cleanness
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A queer American teacher describes a series of intimate encounters with lovers, friends, and students in and around Sofia, Bulgaria"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
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Language
English
Description
"A haunting novel of erotic obsession by a major new talent On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable...
4) Dobry
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov's strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his beguiling and deeply felt debut.
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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
7) Vangelii︠a︡
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Russian
Description
This book is written about the Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga (1911-1996). Famous prophet who predicted many of the significant events of modern history - the life of Stalin, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the death of Indira Gandhi. A woman whose fate was filled with dramatic ups and downs and the dynamics of strong feelings. However, she always justified the value of her name, Vangelia - "the one that bears the good news." .
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Between 1943 and 1944, nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were rescued from the Holocaust, including thousands who had already been rounded up and put on trains bound for death camps in Poland. Dominic Carrillo's suspenseful novel Acts of Resistance is based on a true story of this incredibly heroic effort by the citizens of Bulgaria. In Carrillo's powerful account, he skillfully weaves together a thrilling tale told by three alternating teenage narrators:...
9) Zift
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Bulgarian
Description
They call him 'Moth, ' a hard-luck brawler paroled after serving time for a murder he didn't commit and turned loose into a city decayed by twenty years of Communism. But in an asphalt jungle that makes its own laws, Moth must now battle his way through a cast of killers, con men, agents, outcasts, old partners and his former lover turned ultimate femme fatale. Tonight, one man will stop at nothing to correct the crimes of the past, or die trying....
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