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Item Details
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APOSTOLOFF
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| By: |
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Katy Derbyshire (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£16.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857420887 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857420886 |
| Publisher: |
SEAGULL BOOKS LONDON LTD |
| Series: |
The German List |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Two sisters travel to Sofia - in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile - to bury their less-than-beloved father. This title gives an account of a daughter's bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor. |
| Synopsis: |
Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation. Two sisters travel to Sofia - in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile - to bury their less-than-beloved father. Like tourists, they are chauffeured by the ever-charming Ruben Apostoloff-one sister in the back seat, one in the passenger seat, one sharp-tongued and aggressive, the other polite and considerate. In a caustic voice, Apostoloff shows them the treasures of his beloved country: the peacock-eye pottery (which contains poisonous dye), the Black Sea coast (which is utterly destroyed), and the architecture (a twentieth-century crime). His attempts to win them over seem doomed to fail as the sisters' Bulgarian heritage is a heavy burden - their father, a successful doctor and melancholy immigrant, appears in their dreams still dragging the rope with which he hanged himself. An account of a daughter's bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, "Apostoloff" will introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and eager audience. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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