In a Bulgarian village, everyday violence and precarious lives make solidarity far from straightforward.
Zdravka Evtimova allows the extraordinary to enter a recognisably harsh social world. The attraction is the friction between survival and kindness: helping another person does not become easy simply because it is necessary. Choose this for fiction about a community whose vulnerabilities cannot be resolved by a comforting picture of village life.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
