East of the West
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374117337 (0374117330)
Publish date: June 21st 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Lost it somewhere. Bittersweet. Bitter Bulgarian, sweet American, or vice versa. Pity that some say the best stories are the last few, which I didn't get to, but this book seems to be one of the few Bulgarian works which local bookshops carry in translation. Would I buy it again?
While I am normally a fan of short stories, I really struggled with this book. I don't know what it was, the writing style was good, but the stories just weren't that intriguing. I felt like, as I was reading, that for the most part the stories could have been easily transplanted and take place in...