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Stork mountain

Miroslav Penkov

2016436 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Farrar, Straus & Giroux · ENGISBN 9780374712822
  • 2016Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 436 pages · ENGISBN 9780374222796
  • 2016437 pages · ENGISBN 9781473632912
  • 2017Hodder & Stoughton · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9781473622203
  • 2017Picador USA · 448 pagesISBN 9781250118103

"A young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three years ago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains--a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths"--Amazon.com.

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