East of the West: A Country in Stories
by Miroslav Penkov
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1444733710
- ISBN 13
- 9781444733716
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We'd lost the war, of course, like all other recent wars, which was regrettable, since we never really lost our battles; we just picked the wrong allies.
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 submitted 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 cache of love letters his wife has kept for sixty years, and the post-Communist girl, avowed thief with a heart of gold.
Here are Miroslav Penkov's beguiling, surprising and moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria: stories of people who mourn the way things were and long for what will never be, who wrestles with the weight of history, the debt to family and the pangs of exile. And here is a remarkable new writer, who combines an eye for the absurd with great empathy to give a fresh and inspiring insight into our common humanity.
Synopsis
Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He arrived in America in 2001 and completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. He has won the Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction, and his story “Buying Lenin” was published in The Best American Short Stories 2008 , edited by Salman Rushdie. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is a fiction editor for the American Literary Review.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks174
- Title
- East of the West
- Author
- Miroslav Penkov
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1444733710
- ISBN 13
- 9781444733716
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- miroslav penkov, east of the west, country in stories, war, bulgaria, history, family exile, humanity, short stories novel,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories; Novel;
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