Parable of Stones & Other Stories - Paperback

by Zdravka Evtimova (Author)

The Bulgarian poet and literary critic Valentine Dishev defines Zdravka Evtimova's fiction is mythical realism and argues that it is based on the capacity of the writer to create contemporary myths. Through gritty realism and subtlety, Evtimova gets at truths about our present day that are rooted in the past yet project startling insights into the future. Parable of Stones is a short story collection that touches your spirit and mind, a book that takes you to a country where talent is synonymous with loneliness, love is multidimensional, and each dimension is a door to another world. Uproariously funny at places and profoundly sad a few pages further on, this work of fiction is a labyrinth that teaches the heart to endure and the mind to be victorious.

Author Biography

Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria where she lives and works as a literary translator. Her stories have appeared in 31 countries in the world, including USA, UK, Canada, China, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, etc. The list of her short story collections comprises: Bitter Sky, SKREV Press, UK, 2003, Somebody Else MAG Press, USA, 2005, Miss Daniella, SKREV Press, UK 2007, Pale and Other Postmodern Bulgarian Stories, Vox Humana, Canada, 2010, Carts and Other Stories Fomite Press, USA 2012; Time to Mow and Other Stories, All Things That Matter Press, USA, 2012, Impossibly Blue and Other Stories, Skrev Press, UK, 2013, Endless July and Other Stories, Paraxenes Meres, Greece, 2013. Her novel God of Traitors was published by Book for a Buck Publishers, USA 2007. Her novel Sinfonia Bulgarica was published in the USA by Fomite Books, 2014; in Italy by Salento Books, 2015; in China by Art and Literature Press, Shanghai, 2015; in Macedonia by Antolog Books, 2015, and in Serbia by Draslar Book Partners Books, 2016. It's Your Turn was one of the ten best award-winning stories in the world short story competition on the topic UTOPIA-2005, Nantes, France. Zdravka Evtimova's short story Vassil was one of the ten short stories selected as winners in the world short story competition of Radio BBC, London, 2005.