site.btaSecond Novel by Bulgaria's Zdravka Evtimova Published in US

He May Wear My Silence, a novel by renowned Bulgarian author Zdravka Evtimova was published in the US on November 26, 2023. The title borrows a line from Federico Garcia Lorca's poem The Little Mute Boy, the author told BTA.

After in January 2023 Evtimova's short story For Dimitar – a Poet got the most votes of readers, writers and critics of sci-fi literature on the US platform Critters, the Starship Sloane publisher asked to publish a sci-fi novel by this Bulgarian author as well.

He May Wear My Silence is available on Amazon.

The publisher describes the book as "a spellbinding work of magical realism infused with the folklore of Old Bulgaria and surprise elements of science fiction and fantasy".

The book's cover art (Storm Coming) is by Hugo Award winning artist Bob Eggleton, a foreword by Hugo Award winning author Nigel Suckling, book design by Rhysling Award winning poet F. J. Bergmann, and a back-cover blurb by the editor of Star*Line magazine, Jean-Paul L. Garnier.

Jean-Paul L. Garnier writes in the blurp: "A surrealistic collision between otherworldly magical realism and folkloric storytelling. This bizarre tale plumbs the depths of the human condition while revealing this world, and others, in the strange green light of preternatural technologies. Delightfully unreliable narrators will taunt the reader into forgotten occult wastelands where the lines of life and death blur. A must read for fans of the Strugatsky brothers and Anna Kavan.”