"Miroslav Penkov writes with warmth, wit and emotional precision, and Stork Mountain is a gorgeous and big-hearted novel that manages to be both a page-turning adventure story and a nuanced meditation on the meaning of home. This is a fantastic book."/5(23). Miroslav Penkov’s whimsical debut novel Stork Mountain brings readers to the rural Bulgarian village of Klisura, where an unnamed American narrator has just arrived to live with his grandfather. Compounding the generational and geographical curiosities of their rekindled relationship, Klisura itself is a place in flux, pulled apart by opposing factors of tradition and modernity. On the surface, Stork Mountain, Miroslav Penkov's debut novel, is about a young man's search for his grandfather, but it quickly evolves into a multi-layered tale of love, loss and self-discovery.
Miroslav Penkov's novel Stork Mountain sprawls in unexpected ways. Initially, the plot seems familiar: a young man returns to his ancestral home in Bulgaria, near that country's border with Turkey, to hash out the fare of some familial property. But this, like so many things, refuses to go according to plan. The narrator's relationship with [ ]. Miroslav Penkov was born in Bulgaria himself before immigrating to the United States in , where he completed his MFA at the University of Arkansas. In Stork Mountain, he spins multiple stories at once—pulling us back and forth between past and present, history and legend, myth and reality—until the lines are blurred, borders indistinct. Stork Mountain Miroslav Penkov. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Dancing on Fire: PW talks with Miroslav Penkov; OTHER BOOKS.
On the surface, Stork Mountain, Miroslav Penkov's debut novel, is about a young man's search for his grandfather, but it quickly evolves into a multi-layered tale of love, loss and self-discovery. In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly broke contact with the family three years earlier. 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 men and women, possessed by Christian saints, dance barefoot across live coals in search. The novel Stork Mountain draws on Muslim-Christian conflict, but the Bulgarian-born author says it is not a call to turn away from the US in response to hostility Get concerned anti-Muslim.
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