East of the West: A Country in Stories

by Miroslav Penkov

Book Overview

"Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey. . . . A collection of triumphs." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

A grandson tries to buy Lenin's corpse on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. Every five years, a boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) in the river that divides their village into east...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250007615
• ISBN13: 9781250007612
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"