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!!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

Street Without a Name Kassabova Was Born In Sofia, Bulgaria And Grew Up Under The Drab, Muddy, Grey Mantle Of One Of Communism S Most Mindlessly Authoritarian Regimes Escaping With Her Family As Soon As Possible After The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall, She Lived In Britain, New Zealand, And Argentina, And Several Other Places But When Bulgaria Was Formally Inducted To The European Union She Decided It Was Time To Return To The Home She Had Spent Most Of Her Life Trying To Escape What She Found Was A Country Languishing Under The Strain Of Transition This Two Part Memoir Of Kapka S Childhood And Return Explains Life On The Other Side Of The Iron Curtain.

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    About the Author: Kapka Kassabova

    Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s Her family emigrated to New Zealand just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and she spent her late teens and twenties in New Zealand where she studied French Literature, and published two poetry collections and the Commonwealth Writers Prize winner for debut fiction in Asia Pacific, Reconnaissance In 2004, Kapka moved Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s Her family emigrated to New Zealand just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and she spent her late teens and twenties in New Zealand where she studied French Literature, and published two poetry collections and the Commonwealth Writers Prize winner for debut fiction in Asia Pacific, Reconnaissance In 2004, Kapka moved to Scotland and published Street Without a Name Portobello, 2008 It is a story of the last Communist childhood and a journey across post communist Bulgaria It was short listed for the Dolman Travel Book Award.The music memoir Twelve Minutes of Love Portobello 2011 , a tale of Argentine tango, obsession and the search for home, was short listed for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards.Villa Pacifica Alma Books 2011 , a novel with an equatorial setting, came out at the same time Border a journey to the edge of Europe 2017 Granta Greywolf is an exploration of Europe s remotest border region Her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Sunday Times, The Scottish Review of Books, The NZ Listener, The New Statesman, and 1843 Magazine



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    1. Metodi Markov Metodi Markov says:
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    2. Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      If Ireland has Frank McCourt s Angela s Ashes, Bulgaria has this by Ms Kapka Kassabova She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1973 and grew up amidst the hardships of a communist country controlled by a totalitarian regime At the age of 16 her family managed to emigrate to New Zealand She did sometravelling before finally settling in Edinburgh, Scotland Written with exceptional poignancy and wry humor, Yo

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    3. Emma Deplores contra-saustall.eu Censorship Emma Deplores contra-saustall.eu Censorship says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      Kapka Kassabova grew up in Bulgaria under the Communist regime, immigrating to New Zealand in 1991, at the age of 19 In the years after her departure, she returned to the country several times to visit older relatives and to sightsee The first part of this book is a solid 4 star memoir about her childhood the rest documents her travels and earns 2.5 or 3 stars Unfortunately, the travel section is the longer,

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    4. Castaway Castaway says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      Street Without A Name by Kapka Kassabova A must read for anyone interested in Bulgaria, Street Without A Name tracks the emotional and physical journies experienced by the author as she revisits the land of her birth soon after its entry to the European Union Glimpses into her childhood and teens years under communist rule are written with passion but never sentimentality against a backdrop of cuttingly...

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    5. Daisy Daisy says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      Memoir, history book, travelogue this book is written with clarity, honesty, sentiment not sentimentality , and humor It s beautifully written The family stories are touching The history portions scratch the surface of huge gaps in my knowledge And the sections devoted to Kassabova s country of Bulgaria had me googling images of almost every place she mentions In fact it would be nice if there were a map in this book for eas

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    6. Rositsa Zlatilova Rositsa Zlatilova says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      Street Without a Name is a pure memoir book.The first half of it reads easily, not to say that you flow through the pages It is an interesting sneak in how a young, also obviously quite switch on, person felt about the surrounding environment in the 1980 90s, on the threshold of the collapse of the communist regime.The second part of the book is another story, though not to say that it s nowhere near my literary taste Party the reas

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    7. Francis Francis says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      I d give this book 3 1 2 stars Street With No Name is a very interesting and very personal memoir of Kapka Kassabova s childhood in Bulgaria, and a travelogue chronicling several return trips to visit relatives and discuss the sights The author appears to have also written a travel guidebook, probably during those same trips, and this book readslike a diary of those trips The first part mostly describes her growing up in Sofia, discussing h

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    9. Ilona lalova Ilona lalova says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      The book is very engaging, especially for those of us who lived through that period in communist and post communist Bulgaria The first part is amazing, it reflects to the tiniest details the absurdity of everyday life during the 70s and ...

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    10. Humera Humera says:
      !!> Read ➱ Street Without a Name ➵ Author Kapka Kassabova – Web-info-12.info

      Really enjoyed this trip through Bulgaria.The author gives a fantastic tour of her country, in a writing style that is easy to read, yet full of emotion and pathos.

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