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Hailed in England as a classic, this memoir of the Bulgarian expatriate assassinated in London provides a rare view of life, corruption, decadence, dissidence, and repression in Communist Bulgaria
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- PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0297783009
- ISBN 13 9780297783008
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages280
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The Truth that Killed : (The devasting memoirs that caused the assassination of 'Bulgaria's Slozhenitsyn'). Translated by Liliana Brisy. With an introduction by Annabel Markov.
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Book Description (1. ed.), 8° (22x15), 280 p., publisher's hardbound with jacket, tight and clean, well cared, In The Truth That Killed Georgi Markov offers a devastating critique of a Communist Party riddled with corruption and decadence, of a leader utterly controlled by his Russian masters. Looking further back, to his experience as a student and engineer, he captures the humiliation, absurdity and heroism of ordinary Bulgarian life. In a book of great power, subtlety and humour, Markov creates a gallery of characters who begin to take on a haunting, symbolic significance: the secret policeman who gets drunk every night and interrogates imaginary prisoners, the minor Party official who orders his fellow factory workers to guard a vat of vaseline. Most telling of all, he describes a series of meetings with the President, Todor Zhivkov; it was these descriptions, many now believe, which let to his assassination. Markov was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet that might have contained ricin. Contemporary newspaper accounts reported that he had been stabbed in the leg with an umbrella delivering a poisoned pellet, wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service. This is the first dissident work to come out of Bulgaria, a country about which astonishingly little is known, a country where dissidents are not allowed to exist. Sprache: Deutsch. * * * * --- due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Bulgaria, Danmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain --- * * * *. Seller Inventory # 55608AB
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR007331899
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR002838119
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