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A Country in Stories
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
July 2011
On Sale: June 21, 2011
240 pages
ISBN: 0374117330
EAN: 9780374117337
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay 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. These are Miroslav
Penkov's strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home
country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his
charming, deeply felt debut collection. In East of the West, Penkov writes with great empathy of
centuries of tumult; his characters mourn the way things
were and long for things that will never be. But even as
they wrestle with the weight of history, with the debt to
family, with the pangs of exile, the stories in East of the
West are always light on their feet, animated by Penkov's
unmatched eye for the absurd.
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