Stork Mountain: A Novel

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Culture, religion, and ideology collide in the mountains of Bulgaria in this big hearted debut novel

In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly broke contact with the family three years earlier. 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...