Download or read book The Madonna on the Moon written by Rolf Bauerdick and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the new Party Secretary before mysteriously vanishing, an event that changes the course of the boy's life. A first novel.