A Short Tale of Shame
By Angel Igov
3.5/5
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CO-WINNER OF THE 2012 CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS CONTEST
After deciding to take a semester off their studies to think about future plans, long-time friends Maya, Sirma, and Spartacus decide to hitchhike to the sea. Boril Krustev, former rock star and middle-aged widower who is driving aimlessly to outrun his grief, picks them up and accompanies them on their journey. It doesn't take them long to figure out they're connected to each other by more than their need to travelspecifically through Boril's daughter, whose actions damaged each of the characters in this novel.
Co-winner of the Contemporary Bulgarian Writers Contest, A Short Tale of Shame marks the arrival of a new talent in Bulgarian literature with a novel about the need to come to terms with the shame and guilt we all harbor.
Angel Igov is a Bulgarian writer, literary critic, and translator. He has published two collections of short stories, the first of which won the Southern Spring award for debut fiction. Igov has also translated books by Paul Auster, Martin Amis, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan into Bulgarian.
Angela Rodel earned an M.A. in linguistics from UCLA and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study and learn Bulgarian. In 2010 she won a PEN Translation Fund Grant for Georgi Tenev's short story collection. She is one of the most prolific translators of Bulgarian literature working today.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This novella, set in the Aegean, taught me something. It taught me that I really know nothing about Balkan history and geography. I felt ignorant! Now......the novella itself, in terms of plot, character development, and use of language, was marvelous. A recent widower, wanders aimlessly in his car, eventually picking up three hitchhikers, and they become a foursome. Now the reader is woven into the varying stream of consciousness inner worlds of each traveler and a six degrees of separation story. All this in 144 pages. What a read! Who is this 5th character, Elena? Daughter, friend, lover, sadist? Read this engrossing novella to sort this all out!