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Stork Mountain
Miroslav Penkov
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Description for Stork Mountain
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country he left as a child. His mission is to track down his grandfather and to find out why he suddenly cut off all contact with the family three years before.
The trail leads him to a remote village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains - a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton GB
Language
English
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473632912
SKU
V9781473632912
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Ref
99-1
About Miroslav Penkov
Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to the United States in 2001 on a scholarship to study psychology at the University of Arkansas, where he subsequently gained an MFA in creative writing. His stories have won the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in journals ... Read more
Reviews for Stork Mountain
An intelligently mapped plot complements the skilful blend of familial relationships with religious commentary . . . This is a historically rich study of borders: those imposed by cartography and those that are self-constructed.
Zoë Apostolides
Financial Times
Penkov uses classic narrative forms as a springboard for a dark, dreamlike debut novel steeped in Balkan history and ... Read more
Zoë Apostolides
Financial Times
Penkov uses classic narrative forms as a springboard for a dark, dreamlike debut novel steeped in Balkan history and ... Read more