Four Minutes

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A hybrid novel bringing overdue attention to the underrepresented people scarred by communism.

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"A beautiful, intricately woven, and exciting book."--Wioletta Greg, author of Swallowing Mercury

"Four Minutes is a novel about people on the margins of society. Different storylines interlace in order to tell one story: about the invisibility. This is a book that grabs you by the throat, a poignant novel."--Georgi Gospodinov, author of The Physics of Sorrow

"Few are capable of reproducing, without even a slight trace of pretension, the lives of those who have lived in care homes for abandoned children, especially during the post-communist transition period, and their subsequent fates. In fact, generally speaking, each of us is an abandoned child, however those who the author depicts, really are invisible on the social map. Nataliya Deleva removes from their faces all the clichs that we're so used to trashing at them. A difficult, poignant, important, really important book."--Marin Bodakov, Culture Newspaper

"Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva is [. . .] a powerful, captivating, fascinating book! A reader would never be the same, after allowing the narrative to pass through them."--Bella Cholakova, AzCheta.com

Author Bio

Nataliya Deleva is a Bulgarian-born writer living in London. Her debut novel Four Minutes won the Best Debut Novel Award (Peroto Literary Awards 2018), Second Prize for Debut Prose (Southern Spring, 2018) and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year (13 Centuries Bulgaria, 2018). Her short fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews and interviews appeared in literary journals and anthologies, such as Words Without Borders, Fence, Asymptote, Empty Mirror, Exchanges Literary Journal, Project Plume, the European First Novelist Festival anthology (Hungary, 2019), Stories From the 90s anthology (ICU Publishing, 2019) and Granta Bulgaria. Deleva recently completed her second novel, Arrival, written simultaneously in English and Bulgarian. Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer, translator, and creative director living in Chicago. She has published essays, critique, and translations for the Chicago Reader, Publishing Perspectives, EuropeNow Journal, Drunken Boat (Anomaly), Banitza, Egoist, and others. She is a founding member of the Third Coast Translators Collective. Her debut translation of Hristo Karastoyanov's The Same Night Awaits Us All (Open Letter, 2018), received an English PEN grant, an ART OMI fellowship, and was shortlisted for Peroto Literary Awards in 2018.