The Black Box is the latest satirical novel from one of Europe's funniest and most exciting emerging writers.
In 1990 two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Angel, receive an unusual package from the USA: a black plastic box containing the ashes of their late father. But can either of them be sure he is he really dead? Fifteen years later, as the brothers forge new and very different lives in their new home in New York, some answers begin to emerge . . .
A darkly comic tale of disillusionment, The Black Box explores the nature and logic of our Western neo-liberal capitalist system and how so many of us are all driven to acts of greed, imprudence and recklessness in the pursuit of money and wealth.
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ALEK POPOV is the prize-winning author of widely translated collections of short stories and novels. His first novel, Mission London, has been translated into 15 languages and was adapted into a hugely successful film that broke Bulgarian box office records. The Black Box is his second novel. A third, The Palavei Sisters, was published in 2013. Alek Popov was elected as a member of Bulgarian Academy of Science in the field of Arts. He serves on the board of Bulgarian PEN Centre and is part of the editorial body of Granta Bulgaria magazine.
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