Living in a tiny 1950s Carpathian mountains village isolated from the communism of Eastern Europe, 15-year-old Pavel Botev attends a school taught by an exiled alcoholic who quietly orders him to kill
An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting debut novel—both whimsical and suspenseful—winner of t
