Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf
Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist
policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon
their land and traditional way of life. Darkly comic and tragic, the
novel centers on an ill-fated winter hunting expedition of six neighbors
whose history together is long and interwoven. The ensuing story takes
the reader on a voyage of shifting perspectives that places the
calamitous history of twentieth-century Bulgaria into a human context of
helplessness and desperation.