Stork Mountain

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In his mesmerising first novel the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria the country he left as a child His mission is to track down his grandfather & to find out why he suddenly cut off all contact with the family three years before The trail leads him to a remote village on the border with Turkey a stone's throw away from Greece high up in the Strandja Mountains
- a place of pagan mysteries & black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring possessed by Christian saints men & women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth Here in the mountains he is drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths & here he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl Old ghosts come back to life & forgotten conflicts blaze anew until the past finally yields up its plangent secrets