Zift, Vladislav Todorov's debut novel, was a finalist for the 2007 Vick Prize as Bulgarian Novel of the Year and a nominee for the Elias Canetti National Literary Prize. Todorov also wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film version of Zift. Variety hailed the movie as "an instant midnight fest fave." Todorov teaches film and literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Praise for Vladislav Todorov and Zift"A compelling thriller."--Los Angeles Times"Zift is like a flaming shot of rotgut smuggled in from the old country...Vladislav Todorov adroitly uses the American genre of noir to excoriate the political villains of his homeland's past...Zift is gritty and brisk."--Matt Jakubowski, City Paper"Todorov's raw, hard-boiled parody takes dead aim at noir and leaves it gasping for breath."--Michael Pinker, Review of Contemporary Fiction"Todorov was obviously raised on a steady diet of American noir, and it shows in the pacing, the language, and the shadowy depths of every alleyway, every street corner."--Jessa Crispin"...stalking its genre with the meticulousness of an assassin, while simultaneously parodying it. A novel that unfolds over a single night, in a single breath--and also reads that way...a black-and-white cinematographic vision of early-1960s Sofia by Night."--Georgi Gospodinov, author of Natural Novel"The novel interweaves the key tropes of Soviet socialist realism and American hard-boiled detective fiction to produce a richly intertextual portrayal of a nightmarish--yet comical--Bulgarian communist society in late 1963."--Three Percent"Pulp fiction by a historian of ideas."--Literary Weekly"Tongue flambé."--Kultura"Zift is a play on the pulp noir genre, in book and film, and Todorov has fun playing it to the hilt."--The Complete Review"Zift is part noir, part crime story, part social satire, part black comedy (extremely black), part absurdist fairy tale."--BiblioBuffet
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