some objects handed down from generation to generation serve as a physical link to the past and remind us that our own history begins centuries before we are born.

This is the message of the exceptional book “Scissors” by the beloved Bulgarian writer Yulia Spiridonova and the talented artist Damyan Damyanov, which is already on the market, so as not to discover the exciting journey through the wilds of Bulgarian memory.

Woven from the history of Yulia Spiridonova’s family, the book outlines the path inspired by the simple family relic – steel scissors, which became a witness and guardian of the events that determined the fate of Bulgaria. The jewelry edition includes more than 50 watercolor illustrations that take the reader down the hidden alleys of ancestral memory.

A long time ago, in the borders of the Ottoman Empire, the Bulgarian Huban lived. Huban was a soldier from a family of soldiers and one day he brought a pair of steel scissors to his hometown of Sevlievo.

How did she get to him? Did he buy it from a traveling salesman, or did he bring it when he was in the military? No one knows the answers to these questions, but the story of “Scissors” began there. And only what I expected in the future…

Over the centuries, the Scissors acquired the ability to cut paths through time. The paths that twist and tangle, bind and separate, reach even to our days and shelter us in the folds of world history.

Over the years, it was handed down from generation to generation, fell into the hands of teachers and clergymen, served artists, public figures and revolutionaries.

The novel will be presented on December 7, 2022, during the tenth edition of the Sofia International Literary Festival. To convert…

“Scissors” witnessed glorious times and moments of happiness, but also betrayals, strife and disgrace. And finally it ended up on the desk of a writer who decided to incorporate it into the foundations of an extraordinary story.

Opening the door to a dizzying journey through the ages – from Ancient Egypt and Rome, through the Renaissance and the Bulgarian revival all the way to our days – Yulia Spiridonova reads world and native history and recalls without unnecessary pathos and twisted statements that the path to the future is also waiting in the bistro a look at the past.

Among the pages of this extraordinary book, the images of Leonardo da Vinci, Lajos Kossuth, Colju Ficheto and Tsar Boris III race, and their actions managed to shift the path of a Bulgarian family.

Apart from the masterly words of Yulia Spiridonova, the history of Bulgaria, with its arbitrary ebbs and flows, is outlined by the virtuoso illustrations, the work of Damyan Damyanov.

Written with a deep understanding of human nature, suitable for children and adults, Scissors cuts through time to remember the history of an entire nation.