Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

Party Headquarters (excerpt)

Georgi Tenev

Georgi Tenev (born 1969 in Sofia) is a novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter for film and television, and TV host, and a founder of the Triumviratus Art Group.

Major topics in his work include the cultural and ideological void in post-totalitarian societies and the consequent emerging of counter-cultures; the fall of utopias, and social amnesias. He examines quasi-religion and disbelief, barbarism and revolution, the Holocaust, and the problem of evil. Recent writing often addresses environmental issues. Party Headquarters deals with the social paradoxes of post- communist Bulgarian society, in the horrible shadow of the Chernobyl disaster. It won the Vick Foundation Award for Novel of the Year, and enjoys its English-language debut in our pages.

Translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.

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