"Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to ab
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarterstakes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.The book—which
"Georgi Gospodinov wants to blow your mind?or maybe just provide the ultimate bathroom reader. . . . The formal playfulness suggests Kundera with A.D.D. and potty jokes."?Ed Park, The Village VoiceA f
Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, then returns to the U.S. with a stolen stash of marijuana. Using this as an impetus to change his life,
Thrown is a hilarious picaresque about a sixteenth-century doctor and his faithful sidekick who travel Spain "curing" every ailment possible with the use of tobacco in a variety of forms—the leaves ma