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Street Without a Name
- Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
- Narrado por: Emily Gray
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Poet and essayist Kapka Kassabova reveals glimpses from behind the Iron Curtain in Street Without a Name. As a teenager, Kassabova left Bulgaria for New Zealand and later the United Kingdom. In her memoir, she writes not only about her Communist-era childhood but her decision to return to her home country as an adult.
Kassabova recalls growing up in a crumbling communist apartment block and her struggles learning Russian. Returning to the post-Communist country, she sees a new element of lawlessness. Through her personal experiences, we see distilled a country’s essence and the enormous changes it’s experienced in the last half century. Narrator Emily Gray offers a rueful performance, with a British accent, about one woman’s search for her cultural identity.Resumen del Editor
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up under the drab, muddy, gray 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.
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A life remembered and told eloquently
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- 01-17-23
Absolutely Enchanting real life adventure
Based on the author's personal experience growing up in brutal Bulgarian socialism and her several returns to tour the post communist country years later, this honest tail is both whimsical and heart wrenching as we learn how much it hurts to be adrift from your past, even when that past is filled with horrifying and painful memories.
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This book took me back in time
Good book. I found many of the stories from post communist Bulgaria painfully familiar especially the ones with the family members.
The communist system produced a few lost generations of confused souls with stories that are difficult to explain to somebody coming from a free world.
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- 05-29-21
Excellent!
This is a combination personal story and travel guide. Tells about author's life under communist rule and gives wonder guide to Bulgarian history and tourist destinations. Covered everything spoken about on travel websites but in an easy to read fashion. The narration is impeccable. There is a bit of jumping back and forth between her solo travels and a trip she took with a friend. Just need to pay attention. Author also covers unpleasant topics without using profanity or too much graphic detail.
Would definitely recommend for anyone planning to visit Bulgaria or anyone just interested in knowing more about this interesting country.
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- Giselle
- 11-02-21
Good start, but ended up not liking the author
This book started out great, as the author took us through rich descriptions of her childhood experiences during communism in Bulgaria. But when she describes her adult experiences visiting Bulgaria, she seems to view the people without much sympathy or attempt at understanding them. What else would you expect from someone who feels the need to inform religious people she meets that she is an atheist. I’d rather hear their points of view, not her self-satisfied statements. She proudly tells us that she is “polygamous with religion” (or some such phrasing), which only means to me she has only a superficial understanding of religion in general. She also unnecessarily declares to a stranger that she and her partner don’t feel a need to get married; it’s telling to me that she tells this to a jovial old man who is supportive of her views - and is at least mentally unfaithful to his wife. One of the most annoying things was her travels with a guy who, together, they make fun of some local uneducated people... she describes laughing and making fun of the things they said and did, in their presence! I do not want to hear an account of real people from a very unsympathetic author. Something else I thought egregious but unsurprising: she describes a conversation with a woman who had been a “labor camp baby”, I think she called her: the woman had been a baby in the camps, and had been thrown into a bucket of water to be drowned by a guard (taken out of her helpless mother’s arms), then to be rescued and grow up in the horrors of the camps. I can’t even fathom how that would shape a person. Then, after telling her experience (in a way the author almost seems to poke fun at) the woman changes the subject and says she doesn’t believe the Holocaust happened. The author, who doesn't have much introspection it seems, proudly informs us that she launched into a tirade against the woman about her uneducated evil views, or however she put it. There is no journalistic interest or open-minded empathy in trying to understand why the woman feels that way, what led her to that conclusion, or even trying to understand how a childhood of forced labor and hunger might shape who she is. Instead, the author storms off to another carriage on the train with the words, “I’m done sympathizing for one day” or something like that.
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