The Black Box

Alek Popov, Daniela Gill, de Mayol de Lupe, Charles Gill, de Mayol de Lupe

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English

Peter Owen Publishers
01 July 2015

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

In 1990 two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Ango, receive an unusual package from the USA: a black plastic box containing the ashes of their late father, a professor allowed out of communist Bulgaria to teach in the USA during the 1980s. However, the brothers are left with a nagging sense that something is not quite right. Since neither of them has seen the body they begin to doubt if he is he really dead. But if the death had been faked, why? Fifteen years later, as the brothers forge new and very different lives (Ned a management consultant; Ango a dog walker to the rich) in their new home in New York, some answers begin to emerge . . . A darkly comic tale of disillusionment, The Black Box explores the nature and logic of our Western neo-liberal capitalist system and how so many of us are all driven to acts of greed, imprudence and recklessness in the pursuit of money and wealth.

By: Alek Popov
Translated by: Daniela Gill de Mayol de Lupe, Charles Gill, de Mayol de Lupe
Imprint: Peter Owen Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780720618396
ISBN 10: 0720618398
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alek Popov is the prize-winning author of widely translated collections of short stories, and his first novel, ""Mission London,"" has been published into fifteen languages and was adapted into a hugely successful film. He is also the author of ""The Palavei Sisters,"" and is part of the editorial body of ""Granta-Bulgaria ""magazine.

Reviews for The Black Box

Prize-winning Bulgarian novelist Alek Popov has a uniquely scabrous view of Bulgarians abroad . . . In The Black Box, Popov devotes his comic energy to two Bulgarian brothers . . . [The] Black Box wrestles with the parochial view that there are two places in the world: Bulgaria, and everywhere else. Richard Beard, contemporarybulgarianwriters.com