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      East of the West

      by Miroslav Penkov
      Published
      Jul 2011
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      A grandson tries to buy Lenin's corpse on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. Every five years, a boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov's strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up this beguiling and deeply felt debut. Animated by Penkov's unmatched eye for the absurd, East of the West is a brilliant portrait of a country with its own compass.

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      Jun 2012 Picador ISBN13 9781250007612 ISBN10 1250007615
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      Jul 2011 Doubleday (Canada) ISBN13 9780385676007 ISBN10 038567600X
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      First Edition Jun 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374117337 ISBN10 0374117330
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      Jun 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781429968829 ISBN10 1429968826
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      Aug 2011 Hodder & Stoughton ISBN10 B005HT3T98
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