Stork Mountain

Name: Stork Mountain
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Miroslav Penkov
ISBN: 9781515974109

Author: Miroslav Penkov

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 12 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2016

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut off 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. And here, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew until the past surrenders its shameful secrets.

About Miroslav Penkov

Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to America in 2001 and received an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. His stories have won the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, The Best American Short Stories 2008, The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2012, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. Published in over a dozen countries, his debut collection East of the West was a finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for First Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2014-15 he was the literature protege in the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, working with mentor Michael Ondaatje. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is editor in chief of the American Literary Review.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Metodi

Много добър дебютен роман на Мирослав Пенков. Интересна фабула, добри описания и идеи, като и един страхотен финал. И щъркели, много щъркели. А кой не обича щъркелите? :) Има някои кусури и тук-таме нещата можеше да са по-добре изпипани, но си струва да се прочете. Най-много ме трогна описанието и р......more

Goodreads review by foteini_dl

Θράκες, Έλληνες και Ρωμαίοι, Σλάβοι, Βούλγαροι και Τούρκοι - μόνο όσοι δεν πέρασαν ποτέ από τη Στράντζα δεν άφησαν πίσω τους ερείπια. Ο Penkov, χρησιμοποιώντας ως βάση την ιστορία ενός νεαρού Βούλγαρου που έφυγε για την Αμερική (όπως και ο ίδιος ο συγγραφέας) και επιστρέφει στο χωριό του, καταπιάνετ......more

Goodreads review by Makis

Θράκες, Έλληνες και Ρωμαίοι, Σλάβοι, Βούλγαροι και Τούρκοι- μόνο όσοι δεν πέρασαν από την Στράντζα δεν άφησαν πίσω τους ερείπια Βεντέτα. Φολκλόρ. Θρησκοληψία. Μαγγανιες Πολιτική. Επιβίωση Ζωή σε κάθε έκφανση, παρόλη τη φτώχεια σε τσέπη και μυαλό Κάθε φορά που πεθαίνει ένας αναστενάρης ένας πελαργός βγαίνει......more

Goodreads review by Nicko

Не че няма талант – има! Но сякаш Мирослав Пенков не знае в коя посока да го съсредоточи! Най-важното – безспорно може да пише, но самият той няма идея за какво. Поради тази причина книгата му „Щъркелите и планината” е базирана на клишираната сюжетна нишка за български емигрант, който се завръща, ра......more

Goodreads review by Бранимир

Както казваше учителят ми по физика и електротехника в техникума - "Оценка: две и половина, в ущърб на ученика: две!". Толкова звезди съм дал в Гудрийдс, не мога повече. Това е Мирослав Пенков, стига ве човек. Харесвам Мирослав Пенков като автор, наистина, чел съм му и двете предни книги - и Кървави......more