Kapka Kassabova grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands. Her most recent book is Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Corrie James has worked on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, radio, and audiobooks/5(). Kapka tell us about the tunnels, tombs and treasures found, and yet to be found, but the real essence of the book is in the magic of the forest and mountains and the frequently tragic human stories of the last + years about the border crossings, voluntary and coerced, between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, between East and West, between Europe and Asia, between Christianity and Islam/5(). In Border, Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history: by its own past migration crises, by communism, by two World wars, by the Ottoman Empire, and - older still - by the ancient legacy of myths and legends/5().
Kassabova, K. (), Border: A Journey to the End of Europe, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. Kristeva, J. (), "Bulgaria, My Suffering!," in The Crisis of the European Subject, , New York: Other Press. More about Kapka Kassabova: Kassabova is a poet and writer of creative non-fiction. Her books are journeys into particular human. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova won our Al-Rodhan Prize, it was shorlisted along with five other non-fiction works that promote global cultural bltadwin.ru book follows her travels along the region where Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece meet, tracing the physical and psychological borders that criss-cross its villages and mountains. Kapka Kassabova explores the rich and haunting history of the border between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe. Kapka Kassabova. Granta.
Author: Kapka Kassabova. Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. pages. In the late s, Kapka Kassabova undertook a trek along the southern border of her birthplace, Bulgaria. Through her journey, the author sought to examine and better understand the communities geographically transitional, unlabeled, and often unconsidered through their circumstances and day-to-day activity. In Border, Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history: by its own past migration crises, by communism, by two World wars, by the Ottoman. Kapka tell us about the tunnels, tombs and treasures found, and yet to be found, but the real essence of the book is in the magic of the forest and mountains and the frequently tragic human stories of the last + years about the border crossings, voluntary and coerced, between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, between East and West, between Europe and Asia, between Christianity and Islam.
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