Books by Kapka Kassabova and Complete Book Reviews
Kapka Kassabova, Author Skyhorse Publishing $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-1-60239-645-6
Novelist, poet and travel writer Kassabova takes a meandering, bittersweet journey through her native Bulgaria, where she grew up in the last decade and a half of the Cold War. Her chilling, panoramic view of life under Communism is perhaps best...
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Kapka Kassabova. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-55597-786-3
In this engrossing travelogue, poet and memoirist Kassabova (Twelve Minutes of Love) returns to her native Bulgaria after 25 years to explore its borders with Turkey and Greece, illuminating the area’s often dark history and the lives of the people...
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Kapka Kassabova. Graywolf, $17 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-64445-026-0
Bulgarian-born poet Kassabova (Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe), who now lives in Scotland, explores the religious, political, and ethnic tangles of the Balkans in this potent and meditative travelogue steeped in family history. Lake Ohrid...
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Kapka Kassabova. Graywolf, $20 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-64445-300-1
Poet Kassabova (Elixir) concludes her Balkan quartet with this vivid account of the months she spent with the Karakachan people near Bulgaria’s Pirin Mountains. Describing her subjects’ day-to-day lives, Kassabova recounts accompanying shepherds as...
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