Maria Boteva's 'Ice Cream in Waffle Cones' is a collection of three poignant and surprisingly honest stories about the lives of teenagers.

The heroes of 'Ice Cream in Waffle Cones' are an unusual family whose home is open to anyone who finds it difficult to live in the big world. Children and adults can leave at any moment - to the sea, to the ends of the earth, to unknown distances... And then they always return - to where they are loved and awaited. Classmates from 'School on the Match' make an important discovery together: you can only save others by learning to understand yourself. And the funny and touching girl, the narrator of 'Place for a Holiday,' knows how fragile the human soul can be - and loudly proclaims: 'Long live the heart!'

This book is very difficult to talk about - its characters and the circumstances in which they find themselves are so different from each other. You just have to read it. Read, pausing, reflecting, returning to previous pages, smiling, or swallowing hard. So that later you feel like you've discovered something important.

The book 'Ice Cream in Waffle Cones' was included in the 2013 list of the best books of the year from the online resource 'Biblioguide,' was longlisted for the 'Kniguru' award, and received a special prize from the V. Krapivin Prize.

Author: Maria Boteva