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A review by akingston5
East of the West: A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov
"And so this story ends. Many have told it before and many have sung about it. It is in the air and in the water, in the valleys and in the steep hills. And up in the Mountain you can still hear that lulling—the voice of a woman, soothing her children in times of despair, in times of darkness."
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This has been on my to-read list for quite literally 10 years (I saw it in a bookshop in Massachusetts in 2011) and it just really did not disappoint at all. A collection of short stories set in Bulgaria, they twist around what we get to choose in our identity, how the past continues to shape us, and the changes cultures endure. Loved this collection.
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This has been on my to-read list for quite literally 10 years (I saw it in a bookshop in Massachusetts in 2011) and it just really did not disappoint at all. A collection of short stories set in Bulgaria, they twist around what we get to choose in our identity, how the past continues to shape us, and the changes cultures endure. Loved this collection.