BOOKS FROM BULGARIAStreet Without A Name : Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria
Tags:
Set in Bulgaria
Female author
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.
Reviews:
(5 days ago) |
02 Feb, 2025
An honest and witty account of life growing up in communist Bulgaria. It is a memoir of the author’s life and brings to life characters in her family, her school friends as well as people she meets on her travels. The second half of the book consists of her returning to Bulgaria after emigrating in her teens and travelling through the country once it has joined the European Union. It shows how Bulgaria has been affected by its history, both recent with communism and further back, during and after the Ottoman Empire Underlining the book is the struggle she and other Bulgarian emigrants feel to belong in any country. Interesting, witty, funny and sad.
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