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21%OFFMiroslav Penkov - East of the West - 9781444733730 - V9781444733730
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East of the West

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Description for East of the West Paperback. The debut of a new international star with an outstanding collection of short stories, spiked with homesickness and fizzing with the absurd Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
* WINNER OF THE BBC INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2012 * Prepare to discover a fascinating country; a land buffeted for centuries by power-struggles and revolts, lorded over by Turks, carved up by its neighbours, and subsumed into the Soviet Union. Yet also a land of proud and resilient people, of crawfish hunters and bagpipe makers, shepherds and gypsies, in which daily life goes on. So meet the teenager who swims by night across a border river to steal a kiss from his girlfriend, the ageing man who finds a cachet of loveletters his wife has kept ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444733730
SKU
V9781444733730
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Ref
99-50

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 ... Read more

Reviews for East of the West
There is a kind of magic at work in East of the West, a beautiful alchemy that combines wisdom and imagery, soul and story to render, finally, the pure gold of these tales. Miroslav Penkov is an extraordinary writer. May many books follow this one.
Bret Lott, author of Jewel and A Song I Knew by Heart
Bulgaria ... Read more

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