A Bulgarian writer, who left her home country as a teenager, returns to the sparsely inhabited border region, taking in parts of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. For all the beauty and remoteness of the terrain, its hills, forests and valleys are haunted by a past which has seen lives blighted by the cold war, religious and ethnic conflict and nationalist tensions. The borders themselves are the manifestation of these tensions. A beautifully written experience of one of Europe's unknown and far frontiers.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 89 Summer 2018 ) |
