| Apostoloff Contributor(s): Lewitscharoff, Sibylle (Author), Derbyshire, Katy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857427199 ISBN-13: 9780857427199 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $13.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Series: German List |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation." Two sisters travel to Sofia--in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile--to bury their less-than-beloved father. Like tourists, they are chauffeured by the ever-charming Ruben Apostoloff--one sister in the back seat, one in the passenger seat, one sharp-tongued and aggressive, the other polite and considerate. In a caustic voice, Apostoloff shows them the treasures of his beloved country: the peacock-eye pottery (which contains poisonous dye), the Black Sea coast (which is utterly destroyed), the architecture (a twentieth-century crime). His attempts to win them over seem doomed to fail, as the sisters' Bulgarian heritage is a heavy burden--their father, a successful doctor and melancholy immigrant, appears in their dreams still dragging the rope with which he hanged himself. An account of a daughter's bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, Apostoloff will introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and eager audience. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lewitscharoff, Sibylle: - Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a writer who lives in Berlin. She is the author of Apostoloff, also published by Seagull Books.Derbyshire, Katy: - Katy Derbyshire is a translator and coeditor of no man's land, an online literary magazine of contemporary German writing in English. |