By Georgi Tenev
ISBN-10: 1940953278
ISBN-13: 9781940953274
Winner of the Vick starting place Novel of the yr Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes position within the eighties and nineties, in the course of Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.
The book—which is a love tale, a parody, and a mystery a few political hoax—opens with the most personality vacationing his spouse's father, an outdated communist celebration boss who's death, and being tasked with offering a suitcase choked with one-and-a-half million euros.
It's one among Bulgaria's hottest myths: because the communist celebration fell aside, excessive score officers squirreled away luggage and suitcases containing a good portion of the country's wealth, and that those luggage are nonetheless circulating via Europe, ready to be dropped at numerous conspirators.
But this can be only the start of the corruption and inequality that plagued Bulgaria in this time. whereas immersing himself in pornography and prostitution, the hero of Party Headquarters reflects again on his existence and the emblematic occasions that happened round that time—the anticommunist protests, the arson assault at the Communist occasion Headquarters in Sofia, and, so much tragically and crucially, the Chernobyl catastrophe, in which the households of social gathering officers have been sheltered away and fed distinct, secure meals, whereas the general voters suffered.
Beautiful and tragic, Party Headquarters is an engrossing testomony to the struggles that haunted Bulgaria after the autumn of the Soviet Union, lots of which proceed to resonate today.
Before penning the Vick Prize-winning novel Party Headquarters, Georgi Tenev had already released 4 books, based the Triumviratus artwork crew, hosted The Library television software approximately books, and written performs which were played in Germany, France, and Russia. he's additionally a screenwriter for movie and TV.
Angela Rodel earned an MA in linguistics from UCLA and acquired a Fulbright Fellowship to check and research Bulgarian.
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Conrad cannot seem to decide whether Renouard is a morbid neurotic or a solitary vessel of lost values. Because Conrad detests his female lead, Felicia, he needs to emphasise how she destroys Renouard. His narrator satirises Renouard's adolescent romanticism and exposes him as a sexually frustrated man who has fallen in love with Felicia, although she is the epitome of the life he despises. On the one hand, like Kurtz and Falk, Renouard has atavistic impulses; at one point, he imagines himself taking Felicia to some 'profound retreat as in the age of Cavern men' (p.
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