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Original title: Koi?
Title: Who?
Author: Elena Alexieva
Editorial: Ediciones
Night Edition: 1st edition
March 2010 Gender: Tales, Bible
Pages: 255
ISBN: 978-84-937396-5-2

Price: € 15.00
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SYNOPSIS (cover):

In one village, people dawns shocked one day, a man just back to life. In very different circumstances, a driver, skeptical character and strong personality, cross the desert and only stops to glimpse a shadowy figure making signals. Far away, in a city, a tourist, accompanied by his son, is witnessing the violence and fear take over a crowd. And in a remote and secluded house in the world, a scientist brings to the consequences of his latest experiment.

Under Who?, Stories based on biblical stories and characters, at some point, take an unexpected turn. In some, the characters are transported to the present age, in others, are reunited on stages and at different times, to finish making the same mistakes and adopting the same beliefs.

Alexieva
Elena, one of the voices of more contemporary Bulgarian literature and international awards, presented at Who? a modern, while retaining the original key, the most famous book of history.

PERSONAL OPINION:

As the synopsis says the book is composed of several stories based on facts and figures from the Bible but in the world today. Some are longer than others, some make you think more than others, and like everything, some I liked more than others.

There are nine different stories in total with very different characters. She had a good idea to want to do something different by taking facts from the Bible and putting it in the world today and most of the stories get a good job but a few are obviously not in fact as I read this I thought I wanted say one thing but then he rolled and history, at least for me made no sense.

One of the things that are all common stories is that just ends very abruptly, as if it was not really the end, as if something is missing, and I did not like.

Nevertheless stories as "The Witness", the first account of the book, make you think a lot, as are the people in that story as thousands of years ago can continue or follow from today, and of course, that it is time to change, for us to think a bit more in the world where people live and with which we share ... In this the author to triumph, no doubt.

(...) Her voice choked with sobs and the journalist had to take the microphone. In short, nobody knew who the man was or why he could not kill. Nor did anyone give a damn. (...)

Finally say that my favorite stories to me were "The Witness" and "The Son" and that all books have their pros and cons but this, however, I think he deserves a chance to be read, it is curious perception people can have individual accounts. For him, my three kitties!:

AUTHOR

ELENA Alexiev was born in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1975.

Degree in International Economic Relations University of Sofia, he continued his doctoral studies in semiotics at the New University of Bulgaria (Sofia).

Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Bulgaria and abroad.

currently still living in Sofia, where he works as a freelance interpreter and writer.

HIS WORK

author of two books Poetry: Heart on the Ladder (1994) and Face of Angel Killer (1996), as well as of the novels The Blue Stairway (2000), Knight, Devil, and Death (2007) and Here She Is (2009). Besides Who? , is another book of stories: Readers' Group 31 (2005), awarded the Helikon, 2006.

His latest book, Pets Syndicated , also stories, was released in 2010.

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