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Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon their land and traditional way of life. Darkly comic and tragic, the novel centres on an ill-fated winter hunting expedition of six neighbours whose history together is long and interwoven. The ensuing story takes the reader on a voyage of shifting perspectives that places the calamitous history of 20th-century Bulgaria into a human context of helplessness and desperation. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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It is also interesting that economic systems, in this case communism, have to be forced on people through propaganda, force, and deception. And that even the most idealistic and well-meaning proponents can easily be corrupted by power and use that power to settle old scores and take the easy road. As one character muses during the book, “Is it possible to achieve a humane end through inhumane means?”
If you only get around to a single example of Bulgarian literature in this lifetime, you would not be going wrong with this one. ( )