Stork Mountain

Resumen del libro

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 and 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 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 is 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 finally yields up its plangent secrets.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Bulgaria en 1982. Llegó a Estados Unidos en 2001 y se licenció en Psicología. Cursó el Máster de Escritura Creativa de la Universidad de Arkansas. Ha ganado el Premio Eudora Welty de Ficción, y Salman Rushdie incluyó su relato Comprar a Lenin en The Best American Short Stories 2008. Ha sido seleccionado para la antología PEN/O Henry Prize Stories 2012. Da clases de escritura creativa en la Universidad del Norte de Texas, donde es editor de ficción de la American Literary Review.