During the 60’s of the previous century, in a small provincial town in Bulgaria, the seven-

year-old Yoanna lives on a street named „Dream“ with her grandma – a lonely woman who is trying to preserve her childhood in a world of ideological bans. Yoanna’s mother passed away while giving birth to the family’s second child, and her father – a poet – was slandered, sentenced, and disappeared behind prison walls. The child’s world is constructed of tales, imaginary conversations with a angel brother and imperceptibly collecting knowledge about the adult world. The year begins with an incident – during a game of snowball, a kid injures badly another one, a close friend of Yoanna’s. For the first time, fear enters the girl’s life as something real, brighter than the memory of the loss of her mother…

The novel was shortlisted for the Peroto national literary award for contemporary Bulgarian prose and for the national readers’ Helikon award.

cover design by margaRITA DONCHEVA