The heroes of the short story collection "I'll Wait for You on the Midnight Train" are characters who seem ordinary at first, living their lives monotonously, but a passing event turns things upside down.
In the world of Zdravka Eftimova’s stories, we find an attempt to create a national mythology with a Balkan flavor whose characters suffer from wandering and alienation, but they always return to the source, to the national roots in which poverty appears as a badge and a shield that gives...
These characters have unusual features.
The writer conveys to us the impact of heavy rains and the course of the Struma River. Which splits the birthplace of the writer, and stores in its basin secrets and mysteries that emerge
In these stories successively. Events in this group are accidental and not artificial, any can be encountered
One of us, the scholar of Bulgarian writer Zdravka Eftimova, humbly addresses the reader with the tongue of an expert familiar with the secrets of the human soul. A diverse world that moves between the different poles of life and its different manifestations brilliantly.
Zdravka Eftimova is a distinguished Bulgarian writer, born in 1959. She graduated from Velikio Ternova University “Saint Cyril and Methodius 1985. She worked in translation from and to the English language. She has published many collections of short stories and novels, and her works have been translated into more than 30 languages. She has won many awards, as she is considered one of the The most important short story writer on the Bulgarian and European levels teaches creative writing at Sofia University, and holds the position of president
PEN Club in Bulgaria between 2020 and 2023.
