- Author:
Georgi Milkov
- Language:
bulgarian
- Publisher:
Knigomania
- ISBN:
9786191954285
- Year of publication:
2025
- Cover:
soft
- Pages:
536
Rhinoceros in the Bathroom and Other New Stories from Hand Luggage contains four sections: "
- With Hand Luggage Between Lisbon and Tokyo";
- Journeys Through History";
- "Sketches of Portraits of Some Political Figures";
- "Three Places in Bulgaria."
I knew a man who, during the pandemic, had taken refuge and lived alone in the burnt-out Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. But he was not a fictional character like Quasimodo, he was real – flesh and blood. Before he died, he confided in me that he had left a secret mark somewhere in the depths of the temple, and now I would have to search for it, following Victor Hugo's example. In the prairies of North Dakota, where there is nothing but corn, bison, and the occasional nuclear power plant, I drove a pickup truck carrying barrels of bull semen in liquid nitrogen and a lifeless cowboy's body. In Luxembourg, I had to drink champagne at dawn, even though I remember that famous saying that only aristocrats or degenerates drink champagne in the morning. And I definitely don't have princely ancestry. Finally, on a sunny day in Botswana, just as I had lathered my face and was about to shave, a huge rhinoceros appeared before me in all its glory... The most unique places in the world are those where you can be sure that everything will go wrong from the very beginning. And "Rhinoceros in the Bathroom" is a book about precisely those stubborn surprises that heat up the water in the otherwise cold bathroom of life.