Full name: Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

Author: Kapka Kassabova Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781846271236 9781602396456 1846271231 1602396450

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. Similar books: Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane Sea Room by Adam Nicolson Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor Charles Kuralt's America by Charles Kuralt On the Rez by Ian Frazier The White Rock by Hugh Thomson Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn This Cold Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh Deep South by Paul Theroux Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb Midnight in Siberia by David Greene An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul No-Man's Lands by Scott Huler Facing the Wave by Gretel Ehrlich To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow