The Interior Room

Set in the remote mountain area of Stranzha in South East Bulgaria Kerana Angelovas novel explores vital tensions between human physicality and spirituality in a narrative spanning four generations. The dramatic action takes place amidst a pervasive but threatened natural environment of ancient forests ruthlessly logged and a sea which is overfished. Stranzha is a place that is a place that is both specific and otherworldly in time and out of time a place where old pagan/Christian practices persist despite the changes in the outside world - vicious territorial wars ethnic cleansing and communism. Remote Stranzha proves to be an ideal stage for an entirely original examination of the human condition. -- Christopher Buxton novelist and translator