One time I made some to surprise my parents, and it was the most horrible stuff I’ve ever tasted in my life. Except for the time I decided I didn’t want to be a good kid anymore. But then, I’m the one who sat on the plate of spaghetti.Īnyway, I’m Max. All rights reserved.:Īll right, I’m going to tell you this story, and you tell me if you think it’s funny. not that you’d want to.Arthur Salm is a former newspaper columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune who now writes books full time. 18% Gray makes it impossible to look away. “Zachary Karabashliev’s writing is fearless, raw, and beautiful. And watch out for those dirty martinis-they’re killers.” “Join Zack on his harrowing, hilarious, hell-for-ganja journey, and see an American landscape re-imagined through eyes both fresh and jaded, grief-dulled and stiletto-sharp.
He also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of 18% Gray.
His debut novel- 18% Gray-is a bestselling title, winner of the VIK prize Novel of the Year, and one of the 100 most-loved books of all time by Bulgarians in the BBC campaign “The Big Read.” He is also the author of the short story collections A Brief History of the Airplane and Symmetry, as well as the awarded stage plays Recoil and Sunday Evening. Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela RodelĪbout the Author: Zachary Karabashliev is a Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright, now living and writing in the U.S. Through the lens of the old camera, he starts rediscovering himself by photographing an America we rarely see.ġ8% Gray won both the Bulgarian Novel of the Year Award and the Flower of the Readers Award when it was first published in 2008. Using this as an impetus to change his life, Zack sets off for New York with the weed and a vintage Nikon. Escaping with the van of his attackers, he makes it back to the U.S., but only to find a bag of marijuana in it. CO-WINNER OF THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS CONTESTĭistraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife Stella, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, where he encounters a violent scene, and trying to save a stranger’s life, nearly loses his own.
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