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In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.We'd lost the war, of course, like all other recent wars, which was regrettable, since we never really lost our battles; we just picked the wrong allies.Prepare to discover a fascinating country; a land buffeted for centuries by power-struggles and revolts, lorded over by Turks, carved up by its neighbours, and submitted into the Soviet Union. Yet also a land of proud and resilient people, of crawfish hunters and bagpipe makers, shepherds and gypsies, in which daily life goes on. So meet the teenager who swims by night across a border river to steal a kiss from his girlfriend, the ageing man who finds a cache of love letters his wife has kept for sixty years, and the post-Communist girl, avowed thief with a heart of gold.Here are Miroslav Penkov's beguiling, surprising and moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria: stories of people who mourn the way things were and…
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- Title East of the West
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- Publisher Sceptre
- Date 2011
- ISBN 9781444733716
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East of the West: A Country in Stories
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