„Rodinia“ is a book about absences, about the voids people leave. But it is also a book about hope, which reveals itself in the author’s insistence that we remember who we were and where we came from.
— Vessela Bozova, Literary Newspaper
Novel, 295 pages, 2025
RODINIA
Rodinia is a tale of a journey and a tale of return. A space both illusory and real. Rodinia is the vast supercontinent that existed seven hundred million years ago, shaken and shattered into fragments, only for its remnants to reconnect millions of years later. In a very similar way, the stories in this book are fragments of a greater whole—they split and rejoin, reflect one another, guiding us toward the essence, toward the greater meaning, turning the course of time and filling a fundamental void.
It’s not just the genre that slips away; even the boundaries between literary modes are blurred and uncertain, as the prose is at times densely poetic and intimate, chamber-like experiences unfold and expand to epic proportions—all without losing a single spark of their lyricism. Nikolay Terziyski’s book is strikingly, deliciously, refreshingly Bulgarian, yet unmistakably translatable—a part of contemporary world literature.