Wolf Hunt

An explosive mixture of patriarchy and communism, suppressed secrets and broken destinies in a remote Bulgarian village. Hidden traumas send six men on a final hunt - in which they themselves might turn out to be the game. A novel that grabs you by the throat and brings out the wolves in all of us.

—Georgi Gospodinov

A novel about memory - about witnessing and exposing the past. All of contemporary Bulgarian prose comes out of this novel, whether it admits it or not.

-Georgi Grozdev

If Sartre had had the chance to read Ivailo Petrov instead of Sholokhov, Solzhenitsyn, or Shalamov, Bulgaria would have had already its Nobel Prize-winner. Wolf Hunt is a multi-layered saga and a kaleidoscope of mid-20th-century Bulgarian life, of the way its rural social tissue was torn apart by the communist regime. Yet the novel is much more than an anti-communist statement. It tells the personal stories of six men whose choices keep them apart, yet inevitably - through blood, property, language, and power - their lives get entangled in a knot of rivalries, passions, and vengeful confrontations.

—Dimitar Kambourov