Apostoloff

Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation. Two sisters travel to Sofia - in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile - to bury their less-than-beloved father. Like tourists, they are chauffeured by the ever-charming Ruben Apostoloff-one sister in the back seat, one in the passenger seat, one sharp-tongued and aggressive, the other polite and considerate. In a caustic voice, Apostoloff shows them the treasures of his beloved country: the peacock-eye pottery (which contains poisonous dye), the Black Sea coast (which is utterly destroyed), and the architecture (a twentieth-century crime). His attempts to win them over seem doomed to fail as the sisters' Bulgarian heritage is a heavy burden - their father, a successful doctor and melancholy immigrant, appears in their dreams still dragging the rope with which he hanged himself. An account of a daughter's bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, "Apostoloff" will introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and eager audience.

西比勒•列维查洛芙（Sybille Lewitscharoff, 1954—），保加利亚裔德籍作家，编剧,柏林自由大学客座教授，德国近年来最受关注女性作家之一。1954年出生于德国斯图加特，目前定居于柏林。

1998年凭借小说《弹球》获得德语文学领域最重要的奖项之一巴赫曼奖；2008年，获得玛丽·路易斯·卡什尼茨奖。次年凭借《八百万个老爸在路上》，接连斩获2009年莱比锡书展大奖，2010年柏林文学奖及2011年理卡达•胡赫奖等八个文学奖项，并最终于2013年将德语文坛的最高荣誉毕希纳文学奖收入囊中。成为全球德语文学备受瞩目的名家之一。