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Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria,Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately four minutes, a nod to a social experiment that put forth the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them. A meticulously crafted social novel,Four Minutes takes a difficult, uncompromising look at modern life in Eastern Europe.… (altro)
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This story centers around Leah, a young gay woman in Bulgaria who was raised in a group home for orphans and abandoned children. Those running the home provide a minimum of food and shelter, but turn a blind eye to the rampant abuse the many children inflict on each other. As an adult, Leah finds healing by working with similarly abandoned children, but as a single gay woman, is not allowed to adopt one of her own.
This book is dark with the abuse heaped on poor women -- their lack of options for help or escape, and what it takes to survive. The whole story is also overlaid with the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them to accept and empathize with them.
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." --Vladimir Nabokov
"I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower." --Banksy
"The world has lost its magic. They have left you." --Jorge Luis Borges
"The famous curtainless windows of Amsterdam revealed the interior of the houses. These interiors in turn revealed the absence of private life. The sacred right to privacy had been reaffirmed paradoxically: through the sheer absence of it." --Dubravka Ugresic, The Ministry of Pain
The best refuge if one wishes to remain unseen, is to return to one's hometown." --Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow
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Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria,Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately four minutes, a nod to a social experiment that put forth the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them. A meticulously crafted social novel,Four Minutes takes a difficult, uncompromising look at modern life in Eastern Europe.
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This book is dark with the abuse heaped on poor women -- their lack of options for help or escape, and what it takes to survive. The whole story is also overlaid with the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them to accept and empathize with them.
Not always easy to read, but I loved it. (