In "Stories from the Hand Luggage" Georgi Milkov describes encounters, places and events that made him become a diligent collector of experiences.
Only a person standing a foot from Gaddafi's face and gazing into his muddy gaze, drawn by an inexplicable fatalistic power such as one feels from the bottom of a freshly dug grave of a loved one, can see that there are tattoos under his eyebrows. Probably a scar from his Bedouin past, when they believed in their spell-casting power, or some later quirk of that far-famed generalissimo of masquerade.
Observing Hristo Stoitchkov speaking Japanese in an English-speaking environment, one would easily fall into a state called cognitive dissonance by social psychologists. Simply put - you look and you can't believe your eyes. Instead of swea, Japanese speech pours out of the football legend's mouth. The times of "ayn, zwei, dron" are irretrievably gone and the polyglot Stoichkov himself marked the sunset of monolingual culture...
In Stories from the Hand Luggage, Georgi Milkov describes not only his encounters with epochal characters, but reflects on intriguing places and events that led him to become a diligent collector of experiences. He gathered some of them, believing that the oddities of life were innumerable, but each could see only as much as he was willing to step beyond the threshold of his own prejudices, and the rest was lost forever in the supernumerary of missed memories.