Pre-Election Trauma

Zhivko Tachev is a northerner of the purest proof, born between two rivers — the Vit and the Iskar. For thirty-five years he has been successfully grafted onto southern soil. Since the book in question is his third lyric-satirical one, "Pre-Election Trauma," that is as much as to say that he has put down sound roots and thrives very well in one of the quarters of Plovdiv — Komatevo. And here the question quite reasonably arises: "Who does not know Komatevo, who has not heard of it — the football supporter or the curious tourist?" The pen of Zhivko Tachev is always sharp, well honed. Every minute it stands ready for a fight. His irony is somehow soft, delicate, velvety. But that is only at first glance. At a second glance... Well, the reader's second glance will reach still farther, and go still deeper into what is written in this book.