In her first novel,
The Cosmonauts Are Just Passing By
(2016), Elitza Gueorguieva recounted the end of communism in Bulgaria from the point of view of a 7-year-old child, a book inspired by her personal memories.
Born in Sofia in 1982, she arrived in France in 2000: a brutal parachute drop on which her new novel,
Odyssey of the Girls of the East,
sheds a burlesque, raw, scathing light.
French is not her mother tongue but she adopted it as a writing language on the advice of the novelist Olivia Rosenthal, who led a workshop in which the young woman had registered in 2010. In the process, Elitza Gueorguieva applied for a master's degree in literary creation which had just opened at Paris 8, a university where she had already studied cinema.
Maylis de Kerangal was his tutor.
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A story of girls from the East then.
We discover the narrator in front of the Lyon prefecture, where she must present her certificate of registration at the faculty.
She has just arrived in France.
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