Memoir books from Bulgaria
Recommended memoir books (3)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Bulgaria for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Border : A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova EN
Description:
Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies
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The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti, James Amery Underwood EN
Description:
Marrakesh through the eyes and ears of one of Europe's major writers.
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To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova EN
Description:
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, it remains one of Eurasia's oldest surviving religious melting pots. With their remote rock churches, chang... continue