Stork Mountain: A Novel (March 2016, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
In
Stork Mountain, a
young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in
search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all
contact with the family three years ago. 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 every spring,
possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across
live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets
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 surrenders
its shameful secrets.
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Stork Mountain longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction
First Novel Prize
Read the opening chapter of Stork Mountain on Lit Hub
An Interview for
Barnes and Noble Review (July 2016)
An Interview for Electric Literature (March 2016)
An Interview for Fiction Writers Review (March 2016)
Literary Mixtape for The Guardian (March 2016)
Rolex Mentor And Protégé
A Guest on BBC's The Forum
Winner of the BBC International Short Story Award 2012
BBC Radio Four Front Row
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
An audio profile for Art&Seek
"Makedonija" on Five Chapters
An interview in One Story
An audio interview for Orion
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