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Street without a Name
Kapka Kassabova
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Description for Street without a Name
Paperback. A memoir that intends to revisit Bulgaria and the author's own muddled relationship to it, travelling back to the scenes of her childhood, sampling its bizarre tourist sites, uncovering its centuries' old history of bloodshed and blurred borders, and capturing the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of her own and her country's. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 b&w integrated photos. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. Thirty years later, as Bulgaria was joining the EU club, Kapka revisited the country of her childhood and her own relationship to it to discover just how much it - and she - had changed. With the irreverence of an expat, the curiosity of a visitor, and the soul of a poet, Kassabova brings to life the past and present of Bulgaria, ... Read more
Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. Thirty years later, as Bulgaria was joining the EU club, Kapka revisited the country of her childhood and her own relationship to it to discover just how much it - and she - had changed. With the irreverence of an expat, the curiosity of a visitor, and the soul of a poet, Kassabova brings to life the past and present of Bulgaria, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
250g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846271243
SKU
V9781846271243
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About Kapka Kassabova
KAPKA KASSABOVA was born in Bulgaria in 1973 and learned to speak English at the age of 16 when her parents emigrated to England and then New Zealand. She now lives in Edinburgh, and is the author of two novels, four poetry collections (the latest, Geography for the Lost, published by Bloodaxe in April 2007) and a couple of travel ... Read more
Reviews for Street without a Name
A fascinating book - at once evocative, disturbing and chock-a-block full of charm
Jan Morris A unique memoir of what it was like to grow up in a Communist satellite country. In the mosaic of books about the bad old days, this book is the piece that was always missing. Now we have it, and it shines
Clive ... Read more
Jan Morris A unique memoir of what it was like to grow up in a Communist satellite country. In the mosaic of books about the bad old days, this book is the piece that was always missing. Now we have it, and it shines
Clive ... Read more