Pelican Feather eBook Irina Papancheva Mitko Novkov Phil Madden Bistra Andreeva et al
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A little boy at the centre of a broken love. A broken love through the eyes of a little boy.
A little boy in the thrill of a nascent love. A nascent love in the heart of a little boy.
And more abandoned and depressed mother, guilty father in love, graceful and seductive female friend, energetic and determined grandmother, smart and glamorous uncle…
Brine pool, mud, yoga, meditation – a recovery programme for all of us…
Finally a flock of pelicans that will caress your soul with its humanity and authenticity…
“Pelican Feather” is a book of memories, dreams and growth.
'I want to write a tale about the pelicans. A tale so enchanting that it would replace all the tales about swans. I want to write it with the pelican feather. I want it to tell it to me.'
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The novel tells the story of Martin,a ten year old boy who spends a summer with his mother and grandmother in the seaside city of Burgas after his father has left the mother for her best friend. Martin is the main narrator so the main line in the novel presents his experiences and thinking. His narrative is interwoven with monologues of the seven adult characters showing their deepest feelings and life experiences which have influenced them and their views. The novel also gives a fascinating glimpse of the world around Burgas’s salt and mud pools and the lake with its rich birdlife. It is a face of Burgas which is unknown even to many of its citizens. The city itself with its realias becomes a main character.
"Pelican Feather" is a panorama of contemporary Bulgarian society. It covers political protests, ecology, confusion in moral values, poverty, but also goodness, friendship, and the reaching out of hands. Life in the book is colourful, authentic, true, full of sounds, and above all alive. Тhe story is so real that at times you has the feeling it is happening in front of your eyes. You are a witness but not from a distance. An involved witness; a witness who somehow actively feels for the characters as they are close to you, as you are close to them…Proximity of feeling – perhaps this would be the best short definition of the novel "Pelican Feather".
Mitko Novkov, literary critic and editor
"Pelican Feather" is a story of romantic love in two intertwining voices. A mother’s at the end of her marriage-on her wry and brave path to recovery. Her son’s at the start of first love-gauche and idealistic, but none the less authentic.
It is spiced with vivid accounts of contemporary Bulgaria and just the right sprinkling of magic realism."
Phil Madden, poet, writer and editor of the English translation
“Irina Papancheva has managed to express both the innocence and the astonishing ability of observation of a child’s point of view in such a complex situation. The author approaches all her characters with understanding and provides them with the opportunity to share their versions of the story.
It is a touching book whose season is definitely summer. Its pages evoke the scents of Burgas, the first love and the hope for a new beginning.”
Gabriela Kozhuharova, I read (Az cheta) literary website
Pelican Feather eBook Irina Papancheva Mitko Novkov Phil Madden Bistra Andreeva et al
The main theme of Pelican Feather is passionate love and its many – often painful – vicissitudes, experienced through the eyes of a young, smart, sensitive boy – the child of the coulple that broke up – Martin.One of the remarkable things about passionate love is that it exhibits a desire for purity and exclusivity, that somehow distinguishes it from friendship as well as sex, though both things are ideally united in this type of love. There also is a kind of magic in it, the feeling of being singled out as unique and irreplacable that makes one more alive and awakens all of our faculties, mental as well as physical. As if one feels more real and transported to another world all together.
Two opposite images in the book characterize passionate love: pelicans and mud. While pelicans exemplify the purity of love, mud symbolizes its healthy, physical side. Both are in danger of commercialisation. Think of Valentine day and prostitution. In the book, the Roma kill the birds (unwillingly), while the mayor toys with an entrance fee for the natural brine pools and the mud.
Frequently however, passionate love steers an unhappy course. Though it embarks with highly elevated feelings of uniqueness, on top of it come loads of responsibilities (kids, house, job) as well as the slack of a long time spent together, that both undermine its initial freshness. (That’s what happened to Lena and Ivan, the parents of Martin, the couple that broke up, fast forward through a school friend of Lena -Monica).
Let’s focus on Martin now. Martin is not so much a victim of the separation of his parents, as a smart kid that learns from the events surrounding him, and absorbs some interesting streaks of adults. The complexity of his young ‘love live’ (Alex or Silvia?) mimicks that of his father and makes him more empathic with the situation – though, of course, it shaked his young life thoroughly.
But adults serve as his example too. Most notably of course, his uncle the writer. At two passages in the book – nonsurprisingly ‘At the lake’ (where he sees the pelicans) and ‘The mud protest’; the twin central symbols of the book – Martin is trying his young hand at writing.
Enter the Pelican Feather: not only a symbol for the purity of love, but also for the purity of writing. By its very nature, writing is a very earnest, intense and absorbing activity whereby the writer strives to touch and as such awaken the reader to reality. The Pelican Feather is the perfect gift of Martin to Silvia at the end of the book, as it concurrently expresses the purity of his love to her ánd his aspirations as a writer.
But still, Martin meets Silvia in the mud. The fact that both pelicans and mud play a role in their youthful relationship turns it into a kind of microcosm for grownup reality.
Another crucial strand in the book is empathy. In the many chapters in italics, the writer crouches into the skin of one of the characters, making the unfolding of events – that one might initially disapprove of – acceptable, and the reader sympathising with the point of view of everyone, not only that of the ‘victims’ Martin and Lena.
I turn to Uncle Stefan now. He might be the most important character in Martin’s live (more important than his sweathearts Alex and Silvia, that will probably come and go in his live) but he’s rarely present in the book. His own chapter in italics is not really part of the unfolding story but rather contains some general reflections on love and writing, and expresses his belief in Martin as a promising writer. Almost by definition, writers operate behind the scènes, pulling the strings of the story. They are present, yes, but not directly. Just like Irina Papancheva will be there between the lines of Pelican Feather, for people who know her.
But not only the reader empathizes with the various standpoints. So do, in a subtle way, the characters themselves. Their – implicit – understanding of the people around them softens their own judgment and serves as a kind of catharsis to them. Like actors in a play, they bow to the public and shake hands at the end of the play. They fly above themselves, like pelicans.
And then, there’s Martins close-to-drowning, the most tangible event in the book that unites the various characters and makes them realise what’s all-important to all of them. From the intrigues of passionate love, to love … It’s no decline, on the contrary.
I loved reading the book. It taught me many things about something I rarely thought about until now – passionate love – but whose importance in ordinary live no-one can deny.
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Pelican Feather eBook Irina Papancheva Mitko Novkov Phil Madden Bistra Andreeva et al Reviews
"First my father left us. Or rather, first Monica moved in with us”. That is the opening line of Pelican Feather, simple in form, but deep and revealing in meaning. Martin’s father left his mother for a friend from her school years. Mother and son went to spend the summer with his grandmother in Burgas, on Black Sea coast. There their wounds gradually heal thanks to the healthy programme, prepared by the Grandma daily Yoga, mediation and visits to the natural brine and mud pools. The ten year old Marti discovers love in those magic surroundings and starts to understand that things in life are not always black or white. Martin is the main narrator, but Irina Papancheva gives voice not only to him, but to almost all the adults, so that they can share their perspective. I highly appreciated and enjoyed reading the novel and strongly recommend it.
The main theme of Pelican Feather is passionate love and its many – often painful – vicissitudes, experienced through the eyes of a young, smart, sensitive boy – the child of the coulple that broke up – Martin.
One of the remarkable things about passionate love is that it exhibits a desire for purity and exclusivity, that somehow distinguishes it from friendship as well as sex, though both things are ideally united in this type of love. There also is a kind of magic in it, the feeling of being singled out as unique and irreplacable that makes one more alive and awakens all of our faculties, mental as well as physical. As if one feels more real and transported to another world all together.
Two opposite images in the book characterize passionate love pelicans and mud. While pelicans exemplify the purity of love, mud symbolizes its healthy, physical side. Both are in danger of commercialisation. Think of Valentine day and prostitution. In the book, the Roma kill the birds (unwillingly), while the mayor toys with an entrance fee for the natural brine pools and the mud.
Frequently however, passionate love steers an unhappy course. Though it embarks with highly elevated feelings of uniqueness, on top of it come loads of responsibilities (kids, house, job) as well as the slack of a long time spent together, that both undermine its initial freshness. (That’s what happened to Lena and Ivan, the parents of Martin, the couple that broke up, fast forward through a school friend of Lena -Monica).
Let’s focus on Martin now. Martin is not so much a victim of the separation of his parents, as a smart kid that learns from the events surrounding him, and absorbs some interesting streaks of adults. The complexity of his young ‘love live’ (Alex or Silvia?) mimicks that of his father and makes him more empathic with the situation – though, of course, it shaked his young life thoroughly.
But adults serve as his example too. Most notably of course, his uncle the writer. At two passages in the book – nonsurprisingly ‘At the lake’ (where he sees the pelicans) and ‘The mud protest’; the twin central symbols of the book – Martin is trying his young hand at writing.
Enter the Pelican Feather not only a symbol for the purity of love, but also for the purity of writing. By its very nature, writing is a very earnest, intense and absorbing activity whereby the writer strives to touch and as such awaken the reader to reality. The Pelican Feather is the perfect gift of Martin to Silvia at the end of the book, as it concurrently expresses the purity of his love to her ánd his aspirations as a writer.
But still, Martin meets Silvia in the mud. The fact that both pelicans and mud play a role in their youthful relationship turns it into a kind of microcosm for grownup reality.
Another crucial strand in the book is empathy. In the many chapters in italics, the writer crouches into the skin of one of the characters, making the unfolding of events – that one might initially disapprove of – acceptable, and the reader sympathising with the point of view of everyone, not only that of the ‘victims’ Martin and Lena.
I turn to Uncle Stefan now. He might be the most important character in Martin’s live (more important than his sweathearts Alex and Silvia, that will probably come and go in his live) but he’s rarely present in the book. His own chapter in italics is not really part of the unfolding story but rather contains some general reflections on love and writing, and expresses his belief in Martin as a promising writer. Almost by definition, writers operate behind the scènes, pulling the strings of the story. They are present, yes, but not directly. Just like Irina Papancheva will be there between the lines of Pelican Feather, for people who know her.
But not only the reader empathizes with the various standpoints. So do, in a subtle way, the characters themselves. Their – implicit – understanding of the people around them softens their own judgment and serves as a kind of catharsis to them. Like actors in a play, they bow to the public and shake hands at the end of the play. They fly above themselves, like pelicans.
And then, there’s Martins close-to-drowning, the most tangible event in the book that unites the various characters and makes them realise what’s all-important to all of them. From the intrigues of passionate love, to love … It’s no decline, on the contrary.
I loved reading the book. It taught me many things about something I rarely thought about until now – passionate love – but whose importance in ordinary live no-one can deny.
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