Summary of Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
In her travel reportage “Border”, Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova returns to her native country to visit the borderlands of Eastern Thrace, where Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey meet. She portrays this region as an almost magical in-between land that for centuries has served as a crossroads of civilisations and migrations.
Reasons to read Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
“Border” is part travelogue, part poetry, and part political history. It offers a literary portrait of a region steeped in history, yet little known to tourists. The book won the Jury Prize of the European Book Prize (2020), the British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding (2018), the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (2018), and the inaugural Highland Book Prize (2018). Kassabova is also the author of “Street Without a Name“.
Setting: Bulgaria
Book set in Bulgaria: Eastern Thrace, the borderland between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.
Original title: Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
Year of publication: 2017
Nr of pages: 400
