Stork Mountain: A Novel

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.

Stork Mountain is an enormously
charming, slyly brilliant debut novel from an internationally celebrated
writer. It is a novel that will undoubtedly find a home in many
readers' hearts.