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Apostoloff / Sibylle Lewitscharoff ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.
- Title
- Apostoloff / Sibylle Lewitscharoff ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.
- Author
- Lewitscharoff, Sibylle, 1954-
- Publication
- London : Seagull Books, 2013
- ©2013
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- Additional Authors
- Derbyshire, Katy
- Description
- 279 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Uniform Title
- Apostoloff. English
- Alternative Title
- Apostoloff.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Road fiction
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780857420886
- 0857420887
- OCLC
- 826453361
- SCSB-11729602
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library