Border: A Journey To The Edge Of Europe

Author: Kapka Kassabova

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  • : $28.00 NZD
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  • : 9781783783205
  • : Granta Books
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  • : 0.279
  • : January 2018
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 27.99
  • : February 2018
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  • : Paperback
  • : 1803
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  • : English
  • : 914.990432
  • : very good
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Barcode 9781783783205
9781783783205

Description

Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and exterior geographies.

Promotion info

One of the most celebrated books of the year: a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iron Curtain and today mark the outer reaches of Europe

Awards

Short-listed for The Gordon Burn Prize 2017 (UK).

Author description

Kapka Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of several poetry collections, numerous travel essays, the novel Villa Pacifica (2011), and the acclaimed memoirs Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008) and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story (2011). She has written for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Vogue, and 1843 magazine.