The last part of the trilogy Chekmo is a novel based on a true story from the beginning of the Transition to the end of the world. The adventures of the most extraordinary character in contemporary Bulgarian literature will once again take him around the globe, ultimately revealing why the future belongs not to geniuses, but to idiots. A satire or a tragicomic prophecy? The readers will see for themselves.

A confessional life story – every bit as wild, entertaining and absurd as its inspiration. A story about a colorful character, an excellent scammer who has become the spokesman оf a generation, having lived on both sides of the Transition – the last years of Socialism in Bulgaria with all its absurdities, humiliations, amusements and all sorts of illegal schemes – underground gambling, currency exchange scams and countless tricks, mastered to perfection, for making easy money in hard times. An adventurer with his own life philosophy who is ready to hurl himself into any new undertaking, Chekmo does not hesitate to travel to East Berlin only days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, where new affairs await him.

cover design by Damyan Damyanov