Chernata kutia

Resumen del libro

Alek Popov tells the story of two Bulgarian brothers who lost their father in America at the brink of change in Eastern Europe. It is a story of personal growth and quest for meaning beyond the delusions and clichés, introduced by the post-communist reality. The novel opens with a tragic scene; the family receives an unusual dispatch from the US a plastic black box containing the ashes of the late father. He was a well known scientist, professor of math, one of the few who were allowed to teach in the US during the 80s. Like many endowed people he had a turbulent character and an alcohol problem. The unexpected end of professor Banoff has left his two sons with a sense of trauma and insecurity. Since neither of them has seen the body, deeply inside they foster doubts: is he really dead? Was it staged? Why?

Biografía del autor

(Sofía, 1966) es un novelista, dramaturgo y ensayista búlgaro, miembro de la Academia de la Ciencia Búlgara en el campo de las Artes, del PEN Club de su país y miembro del consejo de redacción de la revista Granta en Bulgaria. Su primera novela, la sátira cómica Mission London (2001), basada en sus experiencias como agregado cultural búlgaro en Londres, ha sido traducida a dieciséis idiomas y llevado al cine en el 2010, convirtiéndose en la película búlgara contemporánea más vista. La galardonada La caja negra (Automática, 2020), su segunda novela, ha sido traducida a seis idiomas