Apostoloff
Roman
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Zwei Schwestern, unterwegs im heutigen Bulgarien. Auf der ersten Hälfte ihrer Reise waren sie Teil eines prächtigen Limousinenkonvois, der die Leichen von 19 Exilbulgaren – in den Vierzigern von Sofia nach Stuttgart ausgewandert – in ihre alte Heimat überführte. Darunter der frühverstorbene Vater der Schwestern. Jetzt sind sie Touristinnen, chauffiert vom langmütigen Rumen Apostoloff. Er möchte den beiden die Schätze seines Landes zeigen, aber für seine Vermittlungsversuche zwischen Sofia und Stuttgart zeigen die Schwestern wenig Sinn.
Zwei Schwestern, ein Fahrer: Ihre Reise durch Bulgarien wird zur rabenschwarzen, erzkomischen Abrechnung mit dem Vater und seinem Land.
Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2009
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Greeted with howls of protest when it was published in 2009 (while also earning the Leipzig Book Fair Prize that same year), German novelist and playwright Lewitscharoff's English-language debut digs into the histories of a troubled family and a shattered nation and comes up with nothing but outrage and contempt. An unnamed narrator who misses nothing and hates everything and her infinitely more sociable sister are being escorted through Bulgaria by Rumen Apostoloff, an old family acquaintance, on the return trip home to Berlin from their father's burial. As they travel, Rumen bravely attempts to share with these women some of the sights of his homeland while regaling them with stories of local history, most of them regrettably violent and grim. As they roll along, Lewitscharoff's narrator contemplates her father's suicide, her mother's unhappiness, and her sister's unsinkable attitude, while fiendishly riffing on Bulgaria's dreary landscapes, horrid food, and mafia-controlled culture. Lewitscharoff's caustic prose can be occasionally overbearing but it's her sharp-eyed, unsentimental, and even lyrical musings that make this novel a spiky, pungent pleasure.
