30 days refund guarantee
Street Without A Name :Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria
Street Without A Name :Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria
paperback
Published:
2 February, 2009
paperback
Published:
2 February, 2009
FREE Delivery by
Sat, April 18 - Sun, April 19
Order within
0
Condition:
NEW
£9.29
RRP
£10.99
You save £1.70 (15%)
Available
20+
in stock
FREE Returns within 30 days
Popular Books by Kapka Kassabova
View All Books by Kapka Kassabova
Description
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, as well as probing the complicated connection between place and mind, between geography and fate.
Prizes
Short-listed for Authors Club Award 2009 (UK),Short-listed for EU Book Award 2009 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781846271243 |
| ISBN10 | 184627124X |
| Number Of Pages | 352 |
| Item Weight | 232 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 19 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Granta Books |
| Format | paperback |
See More +
Media Reviews
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 James
Not many books on the travel shelves have the force of revelation, but this one does ... Kapka Kassabova leads us into a country most of us have hardly read about with an elegant assurance, an acid wit and a heart-rending precision that can make you see the world quite differently. This book is a treasure -- Pico Iyer
Author's Bio
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 guides.