This book is the result of several journeys from Sofia to Prague in the 1990s. It's based on the notes I kept during my travels. The borders had just opened, people were emigrating en masse, I stayed behind. That was my first time leaving the prison of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and I traveled by bus. A journey out into the world and into myself. I discovered Prague, though the search for myself continues. Sometimes Prague is here, sometimes it is there, and the same is true for Sofia."Where would you like to go? Out into the world. It's not a question of the direction, but of the journey itself, ... |
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This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur's only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur's world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book soon sending him across the seas: Nineveh and Its Remains. In ... |
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"Amar tan intensamente al otro que nos perdemos. Como un funambulista, Omar salta al vacío y en el éxtasis de estar flotando en el abismo, en el amor, la obsesión, no sabe a qué distancia están sus pies del suelo. A través de cartas escritas a su amada ideal irá encontrando poco a poco asideros en los que apoyar sus pies y entrar en contacto con la tierra y con su propio ser. La imagen proyectada por el ser amado nos devuelve, al final, la misma ternura, la misma pasión; se revela una conversación íntima e introspectiva que, más allá de dirigirse solo hacia ... |
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The Enriched Collection. ... Сборникът Folk Tales & Fables From Bulgaria на ИК Виа Летера съдържа четиридесет и шест известни и обичани български народни приказки и басни, подбрани и преведени на английски език. Разделени са в три раздела - Народна мъдрост, Вълшебни приказки, Басни с животни. Приказките са преведени на лесен и достъпен английски език и са подходящо четиво не само за деца, но и за цялото семейство. Сборникът е особено популярен сред малки и големи читатели, които живеят в чужбина и ползват българския език като втори. Надяваме се книгата да намери своите читатели сред всички, които се чувстват свързани ... |
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Книгата съдържа 15 избрани разказа от над 500 написани, представени на български, английски, френски, немски, испански, италиански и португалски език."Изнизаха се неусетно, бързо - 70 години. И реших да си направя подарък - да издам в книга някои от преведените си разкази, публикувани в различни специализирани издания или представени на международните конгреси на UMEM, с надеждата моите скромни житейски прозрения да достигнат до повече хора и, дай Боже, да ги развълнуват - изконната мечта на всеки пишещ. А дали пишещият е писател, това ще определи само Негово Величество Читателят. С надеждата да бъда оценен като ... |
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, ... |
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The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a clown to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he ... |
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Cyril Christo is a poet, photographer, documentarian and activist for human and animal rights. Cyril has a Bulgarian name, but pronounced in French, because his father is Bulgarian and his mother is French, known as Christo & Jeanne-Claude. This is a poetry book, where the verses are inspired by his parents' projects and were written many years apart. The verbal images tell of which he grew up. ... |
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"Angelina Sorensen writes with refreshing sense of humor, with light and slightly ironic take of the things in life. While I was reading the stories of Coupling and Uncoupling, I was reminded about the words of the song The Smile: With a light thread the smile ties one person to another..." Mihail Veshim, Chief Editor of Starshel newspaper "The book of Angelina Sorensen is a dialog with the intelligent reader, an awakening of his emotional memory, an invitation for spiritual interaction. It is very rare to find something like it in our nervous, hurried world nowadays. Rumen Belchev, Chief Manager and ... |
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A young woman with hypnotic green eyes and a practitioner of the world's oldest profession, Diva Mila is a superstar in the colourful and mystic world of clairvoyants, psychics, and fortune-tellers, which is why people flock to her in hopes of getting a glimpse into their futures. One of Diva Mila's most peculiar customers is the Assistant, who claims to be the mythical criminal boss Gorky's aide, though he is the boss of the underworld himself. A newly unemployed loser in his late 20s, Bor is dating the Assistant's only daughter. The criminal boss and his ever-silent wife despise the young man and want ... |
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Darian, autobiographical novel - Roman Sakarski."Darian is a novel about one's road through life. A road that can be described with the word freedom. This is a personal story in which the past is seen but its reflections are breathing in the present. The time in which one boy becomes a man. To get in love, to fall, but to rise again and to forget about the illusions. In this debut novel, the main character Darian leaves in two different eras: the communist-led Bulgaria, and after the fall of the Iron curtain and the democratic changes in its country. Darian seeks the truth during his path to happiness. Darian is ... |
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Compiled and edited by Nevena Dishlieva-Krysteva. ... This anthology contains twenty-six personal tales of youthful adventures, ridiculous hairstyles, bootleg cassette tapes, mafia thugs, hitchhiking and guitar-playing, free falling, and hopes for a bright future. All this took place against the backdrop of political and social cataclysms during the most vertiginous decade in Bulgaria’s recent history. A chronicle of euphoria, aspirations, and painful collapse. Stories from the '90s is the third and final book in the series of themed anthologies published by ICU, which also include My Brother's Suitcase and ... |
