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Title: "The Delphic Dress"

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Genre: short stories

Publisher: "Janet 45"

Score (1 to 6): 6

"The Delphic dress is one of the greatest fashion mysteries of all time. It moves away from the characteristics of the garment and closer to the image of the woman. In the book you will find one story about 22 different women or 22 stories about one woman, it just depends on your point of view," writes Dimana Simeonova as a prologue to The Delphic Dress. And it reminds us that the dress as a garment has phenomenally many variations, embodying the woman in it in different guises, just as the woman has phenomenally many guises embodying life in it. And life, it is made up of all sorts of different images that come together to make it a homogeneous whole.

Narrative is a very engaging genre. It requires of its author the sweet skill that often escapes us - to be able to say a lot with as few words as possible.

The short story is a form of mastery. In it, you have to be able to build an image, tell its story, add the necessary ingredients for it to still be real and full-blooded so the reader can feel it, and finally hit the ground running with the denouement.

The theme of woman has attracted poets and writers since ancient times. Today it is one of the most contested in modern society. The theme of woman has become a form of subculture of modern man in the global village.

How do you write a short story on a woman? My God, how do you write an entire book of short stories on that topic? I have no idea, but Dimana Simeonova has created art. The stories in this seemingly small collection are deep, powerful, endlessly life and real, painful. This is being a woman. It's living this life with no inhibitions, experiencing everything it throws at you.

Dimana herself is originally from Ragrad and works in Sofia, in the financial sector. Inhabiting the world of numbers and precise calculations by day, her pen creates stories worthy of the work of great poets and writers.

The book is divided into five parts: Scissors, Fabric, Stitches, Pattern, Review and each one consists of several stories that are not connected to each other. I personally read it in parts, mostly because my vulnerable, emotional soul can't take too many of the heartbreaking stories at once. I guarantee you won't be the same after The Delphic Dress.