It's not just humans who have favourite animals.
Animals also have favourite people.
Especially those who live close to humans.

 Ivan Stankov is a writer and translator. Professor of Bulgarian literature at the University of Veliko Tarnovo. Born in 1956 in the village of. He was born in 1956 in Gomotartsi, Vidin district. Graduated in Bulgarian philology in 1982. Author of monographic studies on the works of Assen Raztsvetnikov, Yordan Yovkov, Dimitar Talev, Vasil Popov, Boris Hristov, etc.
Translator from Romanian of Mircea Kartarescu, Dan Lungu and others.
Author of the books Memories of Water. Dm" (2014), "Streets and Ships. Gm" (2017), "Names Under the Snow. A7" (2019), "Evening Wedding" (2020) and "Late Death" (2022).
He has won the Elias Canetti National Literary Award, the Culture Portal, Stoyan Mikhailovsky and Helikon literary awards.

It's not just humans who have favourite animals.
Animals also have favorite people.
Especially those who live close to humans.
Each story in this book tells of an affection between an animal and a human.
They understand each other with words and without words.
In literature this has been done for a long time.
Everything in literature is an old song in a new voice.
Here there are two voices in each story.
One to pull towards minor, the other towards major.
The action takes place in the present day, on the shore of the Danube,
which continues to thoroughly measure human times.

The author