18 Gray
Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife Stella, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, where he encounters a violent scene, and trying to save a stranger's life, he nearly loses his own. He manages to escape in his assailants’ van and makes it back to the US, only to find a bag of marijuana in it.
Using this as an impetus to change his life, Zack sets off for New York with the weed and a vintage Nikon. Through the lens of the old camera, he starts rediscovering himself by photographing an America we rarely see. His journey unleashes a series of erratic, hilarious, and life-threatening events interspersed with flashbacks to his relationship with Stella and life in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.
A suspenseful, darkly funny love story, 18 % Gray won both the Bulgarian Novel of the Year Award and the Flower of the Readers Award when it was first published in 2008.
Author: Karabashliev Zachary
Year of publication: 2013
Translator: Rodel Angela
Number of pages: 272
Reading time: 4 h. 32 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
