Apostoloff Sibylle Lewitscharoff; translated by Katy Derbyshire
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: German listPublisher: London Seagull Books 2013Description: 279 S. 21 cmContent type:- Text
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- Band
- 9780857420886
- 0857420887
- Apostoloff. <engl.>
- Lewitscharoff, Sibylle 1954- Apostoloff. <engl.>
- [Fic] 23
- 830 B
- MLCS 2014/01660 (P)
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway | R (Reference collection) | R:PT2672.E895 A86 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-1025 |
"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" -- from publisher's web site
English translation from German
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