East of the West
by Miroslav Penkov
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
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Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west.
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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- Bookseller
- Petes Loved Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Product_1296
- Title
- East of the West
- Author
- Miroslav Penkov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover/First Edition/Collec
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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