![]() Kassabova recounts the living oral histories of the people she encounters along the way, exploring the impact stamped into these regions by the brutality of the Iron Curtain, the Balkan Wars, forced resettlements, and divisive regimes dating back to antiquity. ![]() ![]() Beginning at the edge of the Strandja ranges by the Black Sea, the travelogue serpentines along the natural geographical contours within these borderlands - first descending West into the border plains of Thrace, coiling along the passes of the Rhodope Mountains, then circling back to the Black Sea coast where the Mediterranean and Balkan currents unite. Olly Teregulova celebrates Kapka Kassabova’s travelogue, which attempts to capture the complexities of life between places.Ĭhronicling her own personal journey along the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe viscerally portrays the human cost of the cartographical mutilations that this part of the world has suffered. ![]() The lines on a modern map that mark the borders between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece do not adequately represent the changes and shifting identities that this region has undergone throughout its history. ![]()
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