Sofia Literary Agency represents Bulgarian authors and titles in the field of literary fiction, poetry and children’s books.
This novel’s voice contains both the beautiful and the terrible, although it is far from innocent. Here darkness and light are constantly trading places, the stories start from the end and go to the beginning, and neither time nor human age follow their usual course. Тhat, in part, is what makes this book so beautiful—the fairytale dwelling right beside us, making our skin crawl.
— Georgi Gospodinov
Yozhi is a child, a mother, a (great)grandmother, a speck of dust in the universe. She’s been around forever… for more than 100 years: from the 1970s in communist Bulgaria to the end of the 21st century. Post-war traumas, immigrant stories, domestic abuse, the climate crisis, and humanity’s uncertain future are among the many overarching topics weaving through the novel. Dark yet exuberant, Yozhi’s story combines fairy tales, autofiction, and dystopia in a complex and gripping narrative. Alongside the dominant story of a girl as she grows up and grows old, runs another micro-plot, which is composed of short punchy dialogues between the “eternal child” Yozhi and a parent that seem to be happening as though outside of time. These lapidary interludes constantly challenge the rules of reality and the principles of linear narration.