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Book SynopsisThe writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls “a building site beneath the open sky,” but he cannot persuade his more widely read wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel, that it is any good. Meanwhile, the narrator’s extramarital affair with Milena, a young Slovak novelist who writes in French, turns sour. Interspersed among the narrator’s accounts of his novel’s growing pains are stories of the characters he has invented—Tsvetan, a Bulgarian truck driver, and Beatrice, an impenetrable French erotic dancer—unfolding according to their own logic while hurtling toward a fatal conclusion.
Trade ReviewRarely has a postmodernist work been handled so engagingly as by this Romanian master
* Irish Times *
This slim, deeply surreal novel by the exiled Romanian writer Tsepeneag is quite deft in its execution....An imaginative work of oneiric fiction by a master practitioner..
* Kirkus Reviews *
