This novel, named “The thing from that hurts” belongs of Valentin Kachev, a Belogradchik writer, poet, scriptwriter and dramatist who is a member of two writers’ Unions, those of Bulgaria and Russia. The book gives a wide view of the life and social behavior in a small Bulgarian town in the period of post-communism. By the tools of the artistic prose the writer was able to document the changes in mores and social norms in one transition society that had not yet found the right way to democracy and freedom.