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Below is a list of our titles in English and Bulgarian:
BOOKS IN ENGLISH
THE DNA OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Jonathan
Dunne
This revolutionary book sets out to persuade the reader that the English language is not the result of years of haphazard evolution, a chaotic atom-like conglomeration of words, but a carefully planned whole in which each word has its place and is connected by a consistent set of rules. It is not a coincidence that earth is heart or soil is soul, for instance, or that salt makes us last ("You are the salt of the earth") but last is in fact lst. This book journeys from the Book of Genesis and Creation to Revelation and the Last Judgement through the English language, suggesting that language has something to tell us about the environment and that he who would be true to himself is inexorably pushed out on to the margins.
FROM UNKNOWN TO UNKNOWN
by Manuel Rivas
An anthology of 80 poems in English translation. Manuel Rivas is Galicia's most international author, having published three novels and a collection of short stories in Jonathan's English translation. Two films have been made of his work: Butterfly's Tongue and The Carpenter's Pencil, a novel whose Bulgarian edition is published by SMALL STATIONS PRESS. Rivas' poems are earthy, a cry for us to come to our senses, and full of beautiful imagery.
Read the introduction by John Burnside
BOOKS IN BULGARIAN
TIME AND RELATION by Tsvetanka Elenkova
In this book of nine essays written in Bulgarian and accompanied by colour photographs, the poet and critic Tsvetanka Elenkova travels from her native Bulgaria to Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia and England. Along the way, she shares her impressions of Athens, Delphi and the Dodecanese, of Alanya, of Kas and Megisti, where Turkey and Greece come face to face, of Lake Ohrid, the deepest in the Balkans, and Struga in Macedonia, famous for its poetry evenings, of the Serbian monasteries of Frushka Gora and finally of England, where she visits London, Chichester, Oxford and Portsmouth. In this book, the author connects legend with what she sees, a Balkan thread that ends up unexpectedly in England.
Read an essay by Tsvetanka Elenkova in English
LUCK by Raymond Carver
An anthology of 60 poems in Bulgarian translation. The American writer Raymond Carver had a difficult life but managed to find peace in the end. These sixty poems chart his journey from drunken beginnings to the realisation that someone was waiting for him and happiness can be found in the simplest moments, for example watching the newspaper boy and his friend walk up the road in the early morning. The author comes out of himself to view himself from the outside and then to break in: "I bashed that beautiful window and stepped back in." This is a book that is never without humour and modesty, the lessons of years.
Read the introduction to LUCK in English
THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL by Manuel Rivas
This is the only the second book written in the Galician language of northwest Spain to be translated into Bulgarian. Widely acclaimed and widely translated, The Carpenter's Pencil is a story of love set against the backdrop of the Spanish civil war. The author, Manuel Rivas, seeks to dispel the darkness of hate with the light of fantasy, humour and tenderness. Günter Grass claimed to have learnt more about the Spanish civil war from reading this novel than from any history book.
Read the first chapter in Bulgarian
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