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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Deleva, Nataliya, author.
Uniform title:	Nevidimi. English
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2021. ©2021
Description:	139 pages ; 22 x 14 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Lesbians -- Fiction. Mother and child -- Fiction. Adopted children -- Fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12625133

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Varying Form of Title:	4 minutes
Other authors / contributors:	Angel, Izidora, translator.
ISBN:	9781948830379 194883037X
Notes:	The English title comes from "the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye an listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them"--Back cover.
Summary:	"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." --Amazon.com.

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Call Number:	PG1039.14.E44 A2 2021
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