She Does Remember

"I found it a very moving experience with its lovely descriptions of childhood and a way of life that seems very far away from us. For me, it was an entry to another, very different world, which had times of great trial and tribulations, as well as of great joy. It was a privilege to read it and please give my warmest congratulations to Mrs. Svobodka Kostadinova on her achievement."

Fennell Betson, IPE Founding Editor London, UK

A novel appeal to the young to walk the road back home - the same road leading them to "what they have been deprived of, but always taking them away from what they have been left with".
A novel faith that something valuable must be there for everyone to keep against the "merciless mould of time".
A splendid novel about the painfully dear metaphors of life which she does remember in the mundane monotony of days - a novel that all of us remember.

After readers' opinions

A novel about HER who remains simply SHE until the last page, may be because she is the embodiment of every one of us, which makes the novel an intelligible and intriguing story with serious social, political, and universal messages.

Marina Georgieva

At last - a novel without yellow boulevard gossip or soap-suds of an endless TV serial. I recommend it to everyone who is looking for a road back when there are no roads any more.

Nikoleta Damianova

A splendid novel about the "painfully dear metaphors" in "the mundane monotony of days".

Mariana Velinova

The novel "She does remember" by the writer Svobodka Kostadinova is a moving story about the enormous feat of life of the ordinary man in his struggle for survival and dignity after the victorious revolutions which redistribute the "common wealth of the defeated" into "private wealths of the defeating" who are always ready "to flirt with the respectful flag, as per case".

Iveta Manolova

In times when all the young dream of emigrating from Bulgaria in pursuit of the happiness they think they are deprived of here, this novel takes us back to the days when the parents of today's youth were also young, and when they emigrated from their homelands as well in pursuit of their happiness, or at least - of a more decent existence. Yes, due to the prohibition on travels abroad, the emigration was within the country: from the villages to the larger cities, and then - from the larger cities to the City. But the emigrants' "muddy ruts", left behind as "scars of deep wounds" in the woman character's soul, the few "botches of sky" and the "handful of peanuts", are the painfully suffered memory of everyone on hearing the words of Kosta from the novel: "The fairy-tale is over, my girl!"

This is a novel about the road, the road of life of every emigrant (either abroad or in his own country). A novel - open appeal to all the young to find the strength to walk the road back home, that same road about which the writer points out that all our lives it "leads us to what we have been deprived of, but which inexorably takes us away from what we have been left with". A novel about the faith that in the endless "roadside dust" everyone has something valuable which he has to protect against the "merciless mould of time".

Stanimir Stanoev

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