Resembling the complex and fragmented way a fly's eye works, "Natural Novel" contains a myriad of storylines, reflections, and digressions, including a history of toilets and the graffiti found there, a meditation on the relationship between bees ...
Wildly imaginative and endlessly entertaining, Georgi Gospodinov's short stories provide a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges and a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. These stories within stories an...
A radical reimagining of the minotaur myth, from an essential voice in world literature. Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature • Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Translation and the Strega Europeo Published a decade before his Int...
Some smuggle cigarettes or alcohol, others weapons, but for renowned Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov, the most dangerous contraband is carried by writers, who surreptitiously move stories across borders. In The Story Smuggler, Gospodinov explore...
WINNER OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZENew Yorker • Best Books of 2022 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.â€...