East of the West Unknown - 2011

Name: East of the West
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Author: Miroslav Penkov
ISBN: 9781444733716

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Título East of the West
Autor Penkov, Miroslav
Encuadernación unknown
Editorial Sceptre
Fecha de publicación 2011
ISBN 9781444733716

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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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East of the West: A Country in Stories

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13

9781444733716 / 1444733710

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Wamuran, Queensland, Australia

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In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.We'd lost the war, of course, like all other recent wars, which was regrettable, since we never really lost our battles; we just picked the wrong allies.Prepare to discover a fascinating country; a land buffeted for centuries by power-struggles and revolts, lorded over by Turks, carved up by its neighbours, and submitted into the Soviet Union. Yet also a land of proud and resilient people, of crawfish hunters and bagpipe makers, shepherds and gypsies, in which daily life goes on. So meet the teenager who swims by night across a border river to steal a kiss from his girlfriend, the ageing man who finds a cache of love letters his wife has kept for sixty years, and the post-Communist girl, avowed thief with a heart of gold.Here are Miroslav Penkov's beguiling, surprising and moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria: stories of people who mourn the way things were and… Leer más