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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555977863
ISBN-13
9781555977863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234911365
Product Key Features
Book Title
Border : a Journey to the Edge of Europe
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Former Soviet Republics, Personal Memoirs, Europe / Greece, Middle East / Turkey
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Yes
Genre
Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in
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Trade
LCCN
2017-930112
Reviews
"[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "As Kassabova travels through the hinterlands of Bulgaria, along the border where that country meets Turkey and Greece, she discovers that borders shape the lives of both those who attempt to cross them and those who live nearby. . . . Border offers a dark look at a world of smugglers and spies, where the past maintains its hold even as people struggle to reach a brighter future." -- Booklist "A dreamlike account that subtly draws readers into the author's ambivalent experience of a homeland that has changed almost beyond recognition." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK), "An ethereal siren's song woven from the myths, legends, and languages that converge in the borderland. . . . The result is a portrait of a place out of time, separate from the countries the speakers inhabit--a distinctive space that the reader can enter too after falling under Kassabova's spell. Reading Border is a dizzying reminder of the common humanity found on either side of any border." -- The Christian Century "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "As Kassabova travels through the hinterlands of Bulgaria, along the border where that country meets Turkey and Greece, she discovers that borders shape the lives of both those who attempt to cross them and those who live nearby. . . . Border offers a dark look at a world of smugglers and spies, where the past maintains its hold even as people struggle to reach a brighter future." -- Booklist "A dreamlike account that subtly draws readers into the author's ambivalent experience of a homeland that has changed almost beyond recognition." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK), "An ethereal siren's song woven from the myths, legends, and languages that converge in the borderland. . . . The result is a portrait of a place out of time, separate from the countries the speakers inhabit--a distinctive space that the reader can enter too after falling under Kassabova's spell. Reading Border is a dizzying reminder of the common humanity found on either side of any border." -- The Christian Century "This may very well be the best book I've read this decade." --Alex Balk, The Awl "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "As Kassabova travels through the hinterlands of Bulgaria, along the border where that country meets Turkey and Greece, she discovers that borders shape the lives of both those who attempt to cross them and those who live nearby. . . . Border offers a dark look at a world of smugglers and spies, where the past maintains its hold even as people struggle to reach a brighter future." -- Booklist "A dreamlike account that subtly draws readers into the author's ambivalent experience of a homeland that has changed almost beyond recognition." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK), "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK), "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to theother, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK), "Kassabova's sense of adventure and spontaneity, combined with a lack of artifice . . . are winning qualities in a narrator. . . . Kassabova's gifts as a poet shine when she describes the mystical, powerful landscape, the book's true protagonist." -- Newsday "Kassabova is local enough to dig out the details, and at the same time detached enough to see things without judging them. She observes, listens, and narrates without distorting the story with her opinion. She's a messenger. A very fair one. In the current state of the world's refugee crisis, Border is a reminder that those who cross the borders are not just numbers. They are people, and bearers of stories that deserve to be heard." -- The Christian Science Monitor "It's the story of migration, both modern and historical, of boundaries crossed and crossed out, a story as old as the soil itself." -- Literary Hub "[A] marvelous new travelogue. . . . Border is that rarest of things: a travel book with a conscience that is also a compendium of wonders." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "An ethereal siren's song woven from the myths, legends, and languages that converge in the borderland. . . . The result is a portrait of a place out of time, separate from the countries the speakers inhabit--a distinctive space that the reader can enter too after falling under Kassabova's spell. Reading Border is a dizzying reminder of the common humanity found on either side of any border." -- The Christian Century "This may very well be the best book I've read this decade." --Alex Balk, The Awl "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "As Kassabova travels through the hinterlands of Bulgaria, along the border where that country meets Turkey and Greece, she discovers that borders shape the lives of both those who attempt to cross them and those who live nearby. . . . Border offers a dark look at a world of smugglers and spies, where the past maintains its hold even as people struggle to reach a brighter future." -- Booklist "A dreamlike account that subtly draws readers into the author's ambivalent experience of a homeland that has changed almost beyond recognition." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK), "It's the story of migration, both modern and historical, of boundaries crossed and crossed out, a story as old as the soil itself." -- Literary Hub "An ethereal siren's song woven from the myths, legends, and languages that converge in the borderland. . . . The result is a portrait of a place out of time, separate from the countries the speakers inhabit--a distinctive space that the reader can enter too after falling under Kassabova's spell. Reading Border is a dizzying reminder of the common humanity found on either side of any border." -- The Christian Century "This may very well be the best book I've read this decade." --Alex Balk, The Awl "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "As Kassabova travels through the hinterlands of Bulgaria, along the border where that country meets Turkey and Greece, she discovers that borders shape the lives of both those who attempt to cross them and those who live nearby. . . . Border offers a dark look at a world of smugglers and spies, where the past maintains its hold even as people struggle to reach a brighter future." -- Booklist "A dreamlike account that subtly draws readers into the author's ambivalent experience of a homeland that has changed almost beyond recognition." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK), "Kassabova's sense of adventure and spontaneity, combined with a lack of artifice . . . are winning qualities in a narrator. . . . Kassabova's gifts as a poet shine when she describes the mystical, powerful landscape, the book's true protagonist." -- Newsday "Kassabova is local enough to dig out the details, and at the same time detached enough to see things without judging them. She observes, listens, and narrates without distorting the story with her opinion. She's a messenger. A very fair one. In the current state of the world's refugee crisis, Border is a reminder that those who cross the borders are not just numbers. They are people, and bearers of stories that deserve to be heard." -- The Christian Science Monitor "It's the story of migration, both modern and historical, of boundaries crossed and crossed out, a story as old as the soil itself." -- Literary Hub "An ethereal siren's song woven from the myths, legends, and languages that converge in the borderland. . . . The result is a portrait of a place out of time, separate from the countries the speakers inhabit--a distinctive space that the reader can enter too after falling under Kassabova's spell. Reading Border is a dizzying reminder of the common humanity found on either side of any border." -- The Christian Century "This may very well be the best book I've read this decade." --Alex Balk, The Awl "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "As Kassabova travels through the hinterlands of Bulgaria, along the border where that country meets Turkey and Greece, she discovers that borders shape the lives of both those who attempt to cross them and those who live nearby. . . . Border offers a dark look at a world of smugglers and spies, where the past maintains its hold even as people struggle to reach a brighter future." -- Booklist "A dreamlike account that subtly draws readers into the author's ambivalent experience of a homeland that has changed almost beyond recognition." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK), "[An] engrossing travelogue. . . . Kassabova proves to be a penetrating and contemplative guide through rough terrain." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This is an exceptional book, a tale of travelling and listening closely, and it brings something altogether new to the mounting literature on the story of modern migration. . . . [At a moment] when asylum-seekers are adrift from one end of the world to the other, Border makes for timely reading." -- New Statesman (UK) "Riveting, beautifully written. . . . Kassabova, a poet and novelist as well as an essayist, is ideally placed to take us on a journey to a corner of Europe that even today seems exotic and little known. . . . In this region nearly everyone is at only one or two generational removes from exile and displacement, scattered among three alphabets and several nations; and along the way Kassabova meets treasure-hunters, refugees, retired spies, smugglers, hunters, botanists, healers, artists, Gypsies (Roma), forest rangers and -border guards. . . . Her wry wit leavens the narrative and keeps it from collapsing under the weight of cumulative tragedy. . . . This is travel writing with lexical precision ("transhumance", "karst") and a sense of adventure, but with a distinctively female slant. . . . With the best of travel writers, Kapka Kassabova is an explorer, viewing everything with the eyes of discovery, even as she uncovers strata of history and legend. She makes us long to peer closely at the map, and see these wondrous places for ourselves." -- The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
949.903
Synopsis
"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." --Peter Pomerantsev In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays in the "Red Riviera" on the Black Sea, she remembers playing on the beach only miles from a bristling electrified fence whose barbs pointed inward toward the enemy: the citizens of the totalitarian regime. Kassabova discovers a place that has been shaped by successive forces of history: the Soviet and Ottoman empires, and, older still, myth and legend. Her exquisite portraits of fire walkers, smugglers, treasure hunters, botanists, and border guards populate the book. There are also the ragged men and women who have walked across Turkey from Syria and Iraq. But there seem to be nonhuman forces at work here too: This densely forested landscape is rich with curative springs and Thracian tombs, and the tug of the ancient world, of circular time and animism, is never far off. Border is a scintillating, immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and exterior geographies.
LC Classification Number
DR50.8.K37 2017
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- d***a (51)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoShipping took a little longer than it initially said but the book still arrived just as described in fantastic condition. I wasn't a huge fan of the packaging though, as it was just wrapped in a simple thin plastic sleeve with zero cushion or padding and I've had books completely destroyed because there was nothing to protect them so if possible I'd like to see the seller provide a safer package when shipping books. But thankfully mine wasn't damaged in transit!
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