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Apostoloff (Seagull German Library)
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Seagull
| Author:
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
| Language:
English
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??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. An account of a daughter’s bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, Apostoloff will introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and eager audience.
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??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. An account of a daughter’s bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, Apostoloff will introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and eager audience.
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a writer who lives in Berlin. She is the author of Apostoloff, also published by Seagull Books. Katy Derbyshire is a translator and coeditor of no man's land, an online literary magazine of contemporary German writing in English.
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