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East of the West: A Country in Stories

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by Miroslav Penkov
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Availability:In StockContributor:Miroslav PenkovPublish date:2012-06-05Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250007612ISBN-10:1250007615UPC:9781250007612Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Cultural HeritageSize:7.97 x 5.12 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCP7CSTVRN

"Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey. . . . A collection of triumphs." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

A grandson tries to buy Lenin's corpse on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. Every five years, a boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) 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 this beguiling and deeply felt debut. Animated by Penkov's unmatched eye for the absurd, East of the West is a brilliant portrait of a country with its own compass.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250007612ISBN-10:1250007615UPC:9781250007612Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Cultural HeritageSize:7.97 x 5.12 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCP7CSTVRN

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.


Publisher: Picador USA

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