In any case, the stylistic choices definitely added to this tale of bombtoting anarchists funding literary magazines, and I very much enjoyed the novel’s juxtaposition of poetry, history, politics and pure imagination.
– Christian Brook, Around the World in 180 Books
Novel, 240 pages, 2021
T AS IN TASHKENT
A historical novel with a philosophical underpinning about the Bulgarian 20th century – looking for the answer to the nagging question: why and how evil finds a way to constantly reproduce itself in Bulgarian society and politics? A lively language, a dynamic narrative, a terrifying story – chilling even. T as in Tashkent can be read as part of a trilogy – a veritable prequel to The Same Night Awaits Us All (published in English by Open Letter Books, 2018) and Life Has No Second Half. T as in Tashkent was nominated for the Elias Canetti national literary award in 2021 and longlisted for the Peroto national award for contemporary Bulgarian fiction; it was also shortlisted for the National Readers’ Helikon award in 2021 and the Bulgarian Novel of the Year Award of the National Endowment Fund 13 Centuries Bulgaria in 2022.