by BVB | Sep 30, 2025 | Books, Lithuania
Summary of White Shroud “White Shroud” is a novel about a Lithuanian poet, Antanas Garšva, working as an elevator operator in New York in the 1950s, struggling to make ends meet. Through a stream of consciousness narrative, the novel describes his childhood and...
by BVB | Sep 17, 2025 | Books, Denmark
Summary of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Sonja, a forty-something crime fiction translator, finds herself newly single and disenchanted with her job. She seeks new directions in life, starts long-overdue driving lessons, attempts to reconnect with her sister, and...
by BVB | Sep 14, 2025 | Books, Norway
Summary of Will and Testament As a child, Bergljot was sexually abused by her father, while her mother turned a blind eye to her cries for help. As an adult, she has cut off contact with her parents and sisters, who refused to believe her account. Years later,...
by BVB | Sep 14, 2025 | Books, Bulgaria
Summary of Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe In her travel reportage “Border”, Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova returns to her native country to visit the borderlands of Eastern Thrace, where Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey meet. She portrays this region as...
by BVB | Sep 14, 2025 | Books, Bulgaria
Summary of What Belongs to You “What Belongs to You” tells the story of an American teacher in Sofia who, in search of gay love, starts a relationship of paid sexual favours with a young Bulgarian hustler. Reasons to read What Belongs to You “What...
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