Ebook {Epub PDF} Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov

"Miroslav Penkov writes with warmth, wit and emotional precision, and Stork Mountain is a gorgeous and big-hearted novel that manages to be both apage-turning adventure story and a nuanced meditation on the meaning of home/5(23).  · The following is from Miro Penkov’s novel, Stork Mountain. Miroslav Penkov was born in in Bulgaria. Miroslav Penkov was born in in Bulgaria. He moved to America in and received an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. 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.

Stork Mountain. by Miroslav Penkov. Thanks for Sharing! You submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. 1. Ratings. by on Novem. OK, close 0. 0. Write your review. eBook Details. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Miroslav Penkov-STORK MOUNTAIN. Mar 28th, by mary "An old man's mind is a mountain, each memory a milk-washed bell. It's true, God holds the future, which is uncertain and unknown, so let him hold it. But the old man holds the past No god can summon it before him and rearrange it at his will [To] an old man, a day from fifty. 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 a fantastic book., Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans.

Miroslav Penkov: why we should all claim this America as ours 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. 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. A small village in Bulgaria is a microcosm of humanity's conflicts in this challenging yet immensely rewarding novel. 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.