Description

The tightrope walker Karoy guides readers into worlds woven from unruly words, rekindling the long-forgotten pleasure of deep, immersive reading. This short story collection unfolds across four distinct thematic realms: The Beach, Optimistic Science Fiction, Until Yesterday, and Surreal & Sublime—each offering its own atmosphere, rhythm, and emotional gravity.

In The Beach, summer and the sea roll endlessly toward the shore, where momentous events happen only once, and by the following day the sand lies perfectly smooth again—indifferent, immaculate, and silent, as though nothing ever occurred.

Within Surreal & Sublime, strange events erupt in the most unexpected places. Excitement simmers everywhere, and Karoy's anticipation rises to an almost unbearable tension. Here, delicate souls speak through their stomachs, and the eyelashes of beautiful women shimmer, dissolving into an oppressive heat haze that blurs reality itself.

In Optimistic SF and Until Yesterday, stories unfold differently—on their own terms, in their own distinctive way. Subtly at first, then with increasing force, their power grows until the fragile web of words can scarcely contain them. Yet Lubomir Nikolov knows precisely how to weave such intricate literary webs. Proof of this mastery lies in his receipt of the Chudomir Award (2008)—a testament to his voice as an award-winning author of contemporary literary fiction.