Same Night Awaits Us All

"Karastoyanov''s novel is set in Bulgaria in the 1920s, but also invokes the spirit of John Lennon, and brings to mind Dostoevsky''s Demons with its anarchists and assassins, lighthouses, zeppelins, and synthesis of modernist narrative techniques and Balkan storytelling." —Berliner Zeitung

In June of 1923, a military coup established Aleksandar Tsankov as the new leader of Bulgaria. His fascist pol...