num_pages: 272
description: A boxer-turned-hitman faces an impossible mission to kill his brother; an old lady sets up a gang of her own teenage vigilantes after being mugged; a retired geography teacher dreams of places he's never been; a clown on the make talks an impoverished lion tamer into selling his lion to gangsters; and a fading beauty is courted by a suitor with suspiciously scaly hands. . .Drawing on the monsters and myths of Balkan folklore the brutal reality of the Communist regime and the dazzling magic of Enev's own imagination these stories have a surreal and almost hypnotic quality. Absurd both painfully funny and deeply sad Circus Bulgaria reaches straight into the cracked heart of Eastern Europe.
language: English
title: Circus Bulgaria
publisher: Granta Books