For now, if you find a copy of the 1964 edition, treasure it as a historical artifact, but read it with a grain of salt—knowing that the real Boris and Irina are still waiting, breathing and bleeding, somewhere between the Bulgarian lines.
This fact shocks most Western readers. How can a novel that inspired films, plays, and is required reading in every Bulgarian school be absent from Penguin Classics or Oxford World’s Classics? The only official English translation that exists in print (albeit rare) was produced during the Cold War. In 1964, the Soviet publishing house Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow released an English version titled simply Tobacco . The translator remains largely anonymous or credited generically as "editorial staff." dimitar dimov tobacco english translation
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