In this darkly comic & unflinchingly honest memoir, Kapka revisits Bulgaria & her own muddled relationship to it, travelling back to the scenes of her childhood, sampling its bizarre tourist sites, uncovering its centuries' old history of bloodshed & blurred borders, & trying to understand her own & her country's past.
In this darkly comic & unflinchingly honest memoir, Kapka revisits Bulgaria & her own muddled relationship to it, travelling back to the scenes of her...
To the uninitiated, tango is just a dance. To the true tanguero, it is a way of life - and it has been Kapka's way of life for a decade. Here, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, Kapka takes us inside the esoteric world of the milonga to tell the story of tango, from its Afro roots to its sequined celebrities and back.
To the uninitiated, tango is just a dance. To the true tanguero, it is a way of life - and it has been Kapka's way of life for a decade. Here, in spar...
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, it remains one of Eurasia's oldest surviving religious melting pots. With their remote rock...
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role i...
