Subtitled "An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic," this novel is an experiment in blurring the boundaries between the syntax of music and that of poetry. The sentences in question are elliptical, resembling a musical score, and tell the story of a violinist embarking upon a potentially dangerous affair with an admirer and fellow musician as their spouses, audiences, teachers, friends, and colleagues listen and wonder.

Concerto for Sentence is an ambitious, poetic novel that deftly depicts the plight of a gifted musician and explores the narratives we impose on music.

[Dvoryanova's] work invades the brain... and its ability to arrange what it perceives.... after all, Concerto for a Sentence is first and foremost a book about music. About grasping it and performing it and traveling to cities that personify the spiritual and musical...

Emiliya Dvoryanova is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at New Bulgarian University. She is one of the most widely published and read writers in contemporary Bulgarian literature.

ELITZA KOTZEVA has worked as a news desk editor for Reuters Business Briefing, an Italian instructor at the College of Charleston, an English Composition instructor at Appalachian State University, and a freelance translator from Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, and Italian into English.