Stork Mountain

In Stork Mountain a young Bulgarian immigrantreturns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather whosuddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three yearsago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey astone''s throw away from Greece high up in the Strandja Mountains − aplace of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring possessed by Christian saints men and women dancebarefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountainshe gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths. And herehe falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come backto life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew until the past surrenders its shameful secrets. Stork Mountain is an enormouslycharming slyly brilliant debut novel from an internationally celebrated writer. It is a novel that will undoubtedly find a home in manyreaders'' hearts.