Bibliograph

Street Without a Name, Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

Type

Label

Street Without a Name, Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Street Without a Name

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- DISCLAIMER -- Table of Contents -- PROLOGUE - 'I went into the woods…' -- 1 Peach Street - The Émigré returns -- PART ONE - Childhood -- 2 In the Students' Town - Flawed beginnings -- 3 Youth 3 - A world of mud and music -- 4 East and West - The poor cousin syndrome -- 5 Chernobyl Summer - Life and death in the provinces of Socialism -- 6 Winds of Change - Perestroika in the air -- 7 And Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - Emigration -- PART TWO - Other Midadventures -- 8 She Grows but Never Ages - Getting reacquainted -- 9 Freedom, Perfection or Death - Macedonian misadventures -- 10 Balkan Blues - Surviving in the Balkán -- 11 The Curse of Orpheus - A Rodopean story -- 12 Into the Memory Hole - Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Death Strip -- 13 In the Enchanted Garden - On the Black Sea -- 14 Danube Terminus - Just a tourist -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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