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02563aam a2200421 i 4500 001 BF3C5102A5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220317010139 008 210908t20212021nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 194883037X 020 $a 9781948830379 035 $a (OCoLC)1267524162 040 $a WIQ $b eng $e rda $c WIQ $d SINLB $d RRR $d OCLCO $d TOH $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCL $d IaU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h bul 050 4 $a PG1039.14.E44 $b A2 2021 082 04 $a 891.8/134 $2 23 100 1 $a Deleva, Nataliya, $e author. 240 10 $a Nevidimi. $l English 245 10 $a Four minutes / $c Nataliya Deleva ; translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel. 246 3 $a 4 minutes 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Rochester, NY : $b Open Letter, $c 2021. 300 $a 139 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately four minutes, a nod to a social experiment that put forth the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them. A meticulously crafted social novel, Four Minutes takes a difficult, uncompromising look at modern life in Eastern Europe."--Amazon.com 500 $a The English title comes from "the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye an listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them"--Back cover 650 0 $a Lesbians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mother and child $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Adopted children $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Adopted children. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00797050 650 7 $a Lesbians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00996540 650 7 $a Mother and child. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026878 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Angel, Izidora, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025333.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BF3C5102A5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search