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Four Minutes - Paperback

by Nataliya Deleva
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nataliya Deleva, Izidora Angel (Translator)Publish date:2021-09-07Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830379ISBN-10:194883037XUPC:9781948830379Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, WomenSize:8.35 x 5.35 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCKEAAG4NE
Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women.

In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately four minutes, a nod to a social experiment that put forth the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them.

A meticulously crafted social novel, Four Minutes takes a difficult, uncompromising look at modern life in Eastern Europe.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830379ISBN-10:194883037XUPC:9781948830379Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, WomenSize:8.35 x 5.35 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCKEAAG4NE
Deleva, Nataliya: - Nataliya Deleva is a Bulgarian-born writer living in London. Her debut novel Four Minutes won the Best Debut Novel Award (Peroto Literary Awards 2018), Second Prize for Debut Prose (Southern Spring, 2018) and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year (13 Centuries Bulgaria, 2018). Her short fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews and interviews appeared in literary journals and anthologies, such as Words Without Borders, Fence, Asymptote, Empty Mirror, Exchanges Literary Journal, Project Plume, the European First Novelist Festival anthology (Hungary, 2019), Stories From the 90s anthology (ICU Publishing, 2019) and Granta Bulgaria. Deleva recently completed her second novel, Arrival, written simultaneously in English and Bulgarian.Angel, Izidora: - Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer, translator, and creative director living in Chicago. She has published essays, critique, and translations for the Chicago Reader, Publishing Perspectives, EuropeNow Journal, Drunken Boat (Anomaly), Banitza, Egoist, and others. She is a founding member of the Third Coast Translators Collective. Her debut translation of Hristo Karastoyanov's The Same Night Awaits Us All (Open Letter, 2018), received an English PEN grant, an ART OMI fellowship, and was shortlisted for Peroto Literary Awards in 2018.
Publisher: Open Letter

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Nataliya Deleva, Izidora Angel (Translator)

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Nataliya Deleva

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