num_pages: 184
description: Zaharieva packs several genres into one including but not limited to pastoral idyll sexual coming-of-age story and feminist memoir. Ultimately she presents life in all its messiness and possibility vivid enough for the reader to almost taste. Publishers WeeklyGutsy fresh and vivid this story of one woman's brave quest through life will take you on a wild ride.Kapka Kassabova author of Street Without a Name and Twelve Minutes of LoveI turned up in the seaside town of Nesebaran inconvenient four-year-old grandchild just as my grandmother was raising the last two of her six children putting the finishing touches on the house ordering the workmen around and doing some of the construction work herselfthank God for that because at least it used up some of her monstrous energy. Otherwise who knows what would've become of me.In Bulgaria during the height of communism in the 1960s six-year-old Manda survives her cruel grandmother and rural poverty by finding sheer delight in the worldplump vegetables garden gnomes and darkened attic corners. The young Manda endures severe beatings seemingly indestructible. But as a middle-aged artist in newly democratic Bulgaria she desperately tries to feed her damaged soul with intrepid creativity and humor.Virginia Zaharieva was born in Sofia Bulgaria in 1959. She is a writer psychotherapist feminist and mother. Her novel Nine Rabbits is among the most celebrated Bulgarian books to appear over the past two decades and the first of Zaharieva's work made available in North America.Angela Rodel is an award-winning translator. Born and educated in the United States with degrees in linguistics from Yale and the University of California Los Angeles she currently resides in Sofia Bulgaria.
language: English
title: Nine Rabbits
publisher: Catapult