A STORY

Georgi Gospodinov

INITIALLY STOLEN BUT THEN DONATED BY IVAN DOBCHEV IN A PUB IN NORMANDY, ABOUT HOW HIS GRANDFATHER IVAN, A CAVALRYMAN IN THREE WARS, WITH AN ORDER FOR MILITARY MERIT, IN HIS OLD AGE STRUGGLED TO GET ON HIS DONKEY, FURTIVELY, USING A STOOL HELD BY HIS WIFE, AND HOW ONE TIME THE DONKEY MOVED AND HE FELL OFF.

I was small and I started to laugh but my grandfather started to cry.

That’s the story.