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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
233 kr
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'Brave, intense, unexpected, lyrical and troubling' Rory StewartAn extraordinary portrait of the Scottish Highlands: this is an epic and urgent story of destruction and renewal, told through unforgettable encounters with its people.This is the story of a Scottish glen and its inhabitants, and of how I came to call it my glen.From the powerful rivers that bring life and prosperity, to the Pictish cairns, undisturbed for centuries and the meadows of bluebells, from which deer emerge, god-like, in a flash, Kapka Kassabova reveals a world that has been abused, but remains achingly beautiful and alive.In the Highlands, centuries-old connections between the land, nature and people have been, and continue to be, shaken by the forces of colonialism, industry, depopulation and private property speculation.Borrowed Land tells the stories of those who are working against this disconnect: the last true Highlanders, fighting to preserve their home.'A poetic and haunting anatomy of what happens when a world is addicted to extraction' James Crawford'Stark and moving. A hymn, a howl and a call to action all at once' Ben Rawlence'A brilliant, daring and urgent account’ Sally Huband
E-bok
Engelska, 2023166 kr
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Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place.Pre-order Kapka Kassabova’s new book, Borrowed Land: A Highland Story now.‘Kassabova had me under her spell from page one’GUARDIANOver several seasons, Kapka Kassabova spends time with the men and women of this magical region. She witnesses their rare knowledge, not only of mountain plants and the ancient practice of herbalism, but also of how to transform collective suffering into healing. Elixir is, at its heart, an urgent, hopeful call to rethink how we live – in relation to one another, and to the world around us.* Shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2023 *‘Dark and mysterious and beautiful’FINANCIAL TIMES‘Uplifting and beautifully written’MARK COCKER, SPECTATOR‘Extraordinary’COUNTRY LIFE
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2023198 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin.Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and placeOver several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers and mystics. She learns about wild plants and the ancient practice of herbalism, and experiences a symbiotic system where nature and culture have blended for thousands of years. Through her captivating encounters we come to feel the devastating weight of the ecological and cultural disinheritance that the people of this valley have suffered. Yet, in her search for elixir, she also finds reasons for hope. The people of the valley are keepers of a rare knowledge, not only of mountain plants and their properties, but also of how to transform collective suffering into healing.Immersive and enthralling, at its heart Elixir is a search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene. It is an urgent call to rethink how we live - in relation to one another, to the Earth and to the cosmos.''Exceptional'' BBC Wildlife''Dark and mysterious and beautiful'' Financial Times©2023 Kapka Kassabova (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
145 kr
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Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place.Pre-order Kapka Kassabova’s new book, Borrowed Land: A Highland Story now.‘Kassabova had me under her spell from page one’GUARDIANOver several seasons, Kapka Kassabova spends time with the men and women of this magical region. She witnesses their rare knowledge, not only of mountain plants and the ancient practice of herbalism, but also of how to transform collective suffering into healing. Elixir is, at its heart, an urgent, hopeful call to rethink how we live – in relation to one another, and to the world around us.* Shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2023 *‘Dark and mysterious and beautiful’FINANCIAL TIMES‘Uplifting and beautifully written’MARK COCKER, SPECTATOR‘Extraordinary’COUNTRY LIFE
E-bok
Engelska, 2024168 kr
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‘A classic for our times’ MONIQUE ROFFEY‘Haunting, beautiful… Anima will live with me for a long time’ CAL FLYN'A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best' GUARDIANOver the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe.She joins the epic seasonal movement of vast herds of sheep, along with shepherds and dogs, to find pasture in the mountains. As she becomes attuned to the sacrifices inherent in this isolated existence, Kassabova finds herself drawn deeper into the tangled relationships at the heart of this small community.Anima is a spellbinding portrayal of the human–animal interdependence in pastoral life, and a plea for a different way of living – one where we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world.‘An extraordinary work of exploration, both inner and outer. It should be required reading for everyone thinking about our human environment: which is to say, all of us’ THE TABLET
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
125 kr
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‘A classic for our times’ MONIQUE ROFFEY‘Haunting, beautiful… Anima will live with me for a long time’ CAL FLYN'A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best' GUARDIANOver the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe.She joins the epic seasonal movement of vast herds of sheep, along with shepherds and dogs, to find pasture in the mountains. As she becomes attuned to the sacrifices inherent in this isolated existence, Kassabova finds herself drawn deeper into the tangled relationships at the heart of this small community.Anima is a spellbinding portrayal of the human–animal interdependence in pastoral life, and a plea for a different way of living – one where we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world.‘An extraordinary work of exploration, both inner and outer. It should be required reading for everyone thinking about our human environment: which is to say, all of us’ THE TABLET
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
151 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2026327 kr
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'Brave, intense, unexpected, lyrical and troubling' Rory StewartAn extraordinary portrait of the Scottish Highlands: this is an epic and urgent story of destruction and renewal, told through unforgettable encounters with its people.This is the story of a Scottish glen and its inhabitants, and of how I came to call it my glen.From the powerful rivers that bring life and prosperity, to the Pictish cairns, undisturbed for centuries and the meadows of bluebells, from which deer emerge, god-like, in a flash, Kapka Kassabova reveals a world that has been abused, but remains achingly beautiful and alive.In the Highlands, centuries-old connections between the land, nature and people have been, and continue to be, shaken by the forces of colonialism, industry, depopulation and private property speculation.Borrowed Land tells the stories of those who are working against this disconnect: the last true Highlanders, fighting to preserve their home.'A poetic and haunting anatomy of what happens when a world is addicted to extraction' James Crawford'Stark and moving. A hymn, a howl and a call to action all at once' Ben Rawlence'A brilliant, daring and urgent account’ Sally Huband
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
270 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
204 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2023172 kr
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A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of BorderIn Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out the deep connection between people, plants, and place. The Mesta is one of the oldest rivers in Europe and the surrounding forests and mountains of the southern Balkans are an extraordinarily rich nexus for plant gatherers.Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers, and mystics. She learns about wild plants and the ancient practice of herbalism that makes use of them, and she experiences a symbiotic system where nature and culture have blended for thousands of years. Through her captivating encounters we come to feel the devastating weight of the ecological and cultural disinheritance that the people of this valley have suffered. And Kassabova reflects on what being disconnected from place can do to our souls and our bodies. Yet, in her search for elixir, she also finds reasons for hope. The people of the valley are keepers of a rare knowledge, not only of mountain plants and their properties, but also of how to transform collective suffering into healing.Immersive and enthralling, Elixir is an urgent and unforgettable call to rethink how we live-in relation to one another, to Earth, and to the cosmos.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
270 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2010105 kr
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''Tangled with darkness like its lush, decaying setting, Villa Pacifica had me gripped to the very end.''—Emily Perkins A couple arrive in a dead-end coastal village somewhere in South America. The only place to stay is Villa Pacifica, part hotel and part animal sanctuary run by eccentric ex-pats. Travel guide-writer Ute and her husband Jerry are joined by an assortment of travellers: in-your-face American Max; sporty flight attendants from Australia; musicians Luis and Helga – all looking for something out of the ordinary. Ute begins to meet the locals and explore the villa''s surrounds. She senses that the place taps into her most intimate fears. Its disturbances may well be beyond the rational mind. Soon, personalities and relationships begin to crack. When a huge storm descends on the coast, travellers and locals are thrown back on their own devices. The hot-house world that prowls below the surface of Villa Pacifica rises to engulf everyone. Madness begins to take hold. An ever-present air of sensuality and danger haunts Kapka Kassabova''s new novel. Villa Pacifica is an exotic romp through a place where the primal, spiritual and cerebral collide. This is a visceral, gripping story from one of New Zealand''s most talented writers.
E-bok
Engelska, 2012105 kr
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After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club, but beyond the clichés about undrinkable plonk, cheap property, and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy outskirts of Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under Communism, got away just as soon as she could, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. In this illuminating and entertaining memoir, Kapka revisits Bulgaria and her own muddled relationship to it, travelling back to the scenes of her childhood, sampling its bizarre tourist sites, uncovering its centuries'' old history of bloodshed and blurred borders, and capturing the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of her own and her country''s past. Also available as an eBook
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
127 kr
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Winner of the the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017Winner of the 2017 Highland Book PrizeWinner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2018Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017Shortlisted for the National Circle of Critics Award 2017When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy: the holiday-makers, the potential escapees.Today, this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised, but it is scarred by its past. In Border, Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history: by its own past migration crises, by communism, by two World wars, by the Ottoman Empire, and - older still - by the ancient legacy of myths and legends. As Kapka Kassabova explores this enigmatic region in the company of border guards and treasure hunters, entrepreneurs and botanists, psychic healers and ritual fire-walkers, refugees and smugglers, she traces the physical and psychological borders that criss-cross its villages and mountains, and goes in search of the stories that will unlock its secrets.Border is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe, and a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries, between cultures, between people, and within each of us.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
124 kr
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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekLake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, it remains one of Eurasia's oldest surviving religious melting pots. With their remote rock churches, changeable currents, and large population of migratory birds, the Lakes live in their own time.By exploring the stories of dwellers past and present, Kassabova uncovers the human history shaped by the Lakes. Soon, her journey unfolds to a deeper enquiry into how geography and politics imprint themselves upon families and nations, and confronts her with questions about human suffering and the capacity for change.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
124 kr
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Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. Thirty years later, as Bulgaria was joining the EU club, Kapka revisited the country of her childhood and her own relationship to it to discover just how much it - and she - had changed. With the irreverence of an expat, the curiosity of a visitor, and the soul of a poet, Kassabova brings to life the past and present of Bulgaria, as well as probing the complicated connection between place and mind, between geography and fate.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
144 kr
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Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the world, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, putting in hours of practice for fleeting moments of dance-floor ecstasy, suffering blisters and heart-break along the way. Here, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, Kapka takes us inside the esoteric world of tango to tell the story of the dance, from its Afro roots to its sequined stars and back. Twelve Minutes of Love is a timeless tale of exile and longing, death and desire, love and belonging.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
144 kr
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Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. In Someone else’s life, her first poetry collection to be published in the UK, she explores the emotional and spiritual territory of the traveller and the dispossessed, the spaces between memory and being, exploration and doubt, desire and loss.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
135 kr
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Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. The voices speaking here – from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ – are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the “tenants” of lives, cities and destinies. This is what we all are, have been, or will be.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2021
300 kr
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E-bok
Rumänska, 202382 kr
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„O carte minunată, despre un tărâm plin de magie." The GuardianÎn acest excepțional reportaj literar, Kapka Kassabova se întoarce în Bulgaria, de unde a emigrat cu 25 de ani în urmă, pentru a explora zona de frontieră pe care fosta ei țară o împarte cu Turcia și Grecia. În copilăria autoarei, despre acea zonă de granița se spunea că ar fi mai ușor de trecut decât Zidul Berlinului, așa că locul mișuna de soldați și spioni. Kassabova descoperă un teritoriu modelat de diferite forțe ale istoriei: imperialismul sovietic, Imperiul Otoman și, mai înainte, miturile și legendele imemoriale. Frontiera redă călătoria autoarei în regiune, în timpul căreia aceasta intervievează diverse personaje pitorești, de la contrabandiști, vânători de comori și grăniceri la țărani ce venerează puterea focului. Atât istorie, cât și literatură, cartea ei aduce la lumină un teritoriu misterios și forfotind de forțe obscure, unde modernitatea pare a se fi sfiit să pătrundă.„O carte de călătorie excepțională, la fel de bună ca orice a scris Patrick Leigh Fermor." The Sunday Times
E-bok
Spanska, 2021149 kr
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En este extraordinario reportaje narrativo, Kapka Kassabova regresa a Bulgaria, desde donde emigró como niña veinticinco años antes, para explorar la frontera que comparte con Turquía y Grecia. Entonces, se decía que la esta zona era un punto de cruce más fácil hacia el bloque occidental que el muro de Berlín y estaba repleta de soldados y espías. Hoy en día, este paisaje densamente boscoso ya no está fuertemente militarizado, pero sí marcado por su pasado.En Frontera, Kassabova emprende un viaje a través de un rincón oculto del continente y se encuentra con los pobladores de esta triple frontera: búlgaros, turcos, griegos, gitanos, musulmanes de los Balcanes y la última ola de refugiados que huyen de Siria. Descubre una región que ha sido moldeada por las sucesivas fuerzas de la Historia: por sus propias crisis migratorias pasadas, por el comunismo, por la ocupación nazi, por el Imperio Otomano y, aún más, por un antiguo legado de mitos y leyendas.Mientras la autora explora esta enigmática región junto a guardias y cazatesoros, empresarios, refugiados y contrabandistas, traza las fronteras físicas y psicológicas que cruzan sus aldeas y montañas, e indaga en las historias que revelarán sus secretos.
E-bok
Spanska, 2026118 kr
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Una exploración profunda y luminosa de las tierras fronterizas de los Balcanes, donde cada paisaje guarda una historia silenciada. El lago Ohrid y el lago Prespa. Dos vastos lagos al sur de los Balcanes unidos por ríos subterráneos. Dos lagos que han desempeñado un papel central en la historia y en la familia materna de Kapka Kassabova. En este libro, la autora emprende un viaje al lugar de origen de su abuela y descubre un verdadero cruce de civilizaciones: los lagos se sitúan en las regiones montañosas fronterizas de Macedonia, Albania y Grecia, coronadas por la antigua vía romana, la Via Egnatia, y han sido testigos de milenios de historia. En su día nexo comercial y espiritual de los Balcanes meridionales, con sus remotas iglesias excavadas en la roca, sus corrientes cambiantes y su abundante población de aves, los lagos viven en un ritmo temporal propio. Explorando las historias de sus habitantes, pasados y presentes, su viaje se transforma en una investigación más profunda, enfrentándola a preguntas sobre el sufrimiento humano y nuestra capacidad de cambio.«Una mezcla extraordinariamente inquietante de libro de viajes, historia y memorias familiares... una delicia, exquisitamente escrito y rebosante de compasión... un libro maravilloso». —Sunday Times«Escrito para abrazar la idea de que los pueblos de los Balcanes –y, de hecho, la humanidad en su conjunto— tienen más en común que aquello que los divide, pese a generaciones de conflictos que sugieren lo contrario». —The Times«Logra el equilibrio perfecto al exponer cómo la rueda de la historia... aplasta el gran potencial humano pero no siempre es capaz de extinguirlo».—Times Literary Supplement
E-bok
Katalanska, 2025163 kr
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Benvinguts a Tràcia.Un bosc infinit carregat d''històries«Ves amb compte de no fer-te addicta a caçar històries. Perquè això és com escalar muntanyes. Només que badis un cop...». Kapka Kassabova agraeix l''avís, però sap que no hi ha alternativa: les fronteres mostren les quimeres del poder, més interessat a conquerir territoris que a cuidar els qui els habiten. I a la zona zero, ¿qui dona veu als exiliats i als desapareguts, als que s''han resistit a abandonar la llar, a les llegendes i als avantpassats? A l''última frontera d''Europa, allà on conflueixen Bulgària, Grècia i Turquia, l''autora remena runes i travessa muntanyes maleïdes, però sobretot posa cara i nom als guardians de records que viuen entre paratges rodejats de misticisme i en perill d''extinció, des de curanderes que expien la culpa de coronels jubilats fins a traficants de persones de moral múltiple. Kassabova ho clama als quatre vents: som atemps de deixar que escriguin la història els que l''han viscuda.«Kassabova és una Xahrazad moderna: una escriptora brillant que explica històries com si li hi anés la vida»—Neal Ascherson, "Scottish Review of Books"«Mostra millor que cap llibre el que les fronteres fan a la vida de la gent i com hi perduren els seus efectes»—Mark Mazower, "The Guardian"«Barreja meravellosament passat i present, mites enterrats i somnis actuals, les vides destrossades per la fi del comunisme i l''embriaguesa de les possibilitats del món posterior»—Marc Semo, "Le Monde"Premi Nicolas Bouvier i Premi del Llibre Europeu 2020
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
244 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
254 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
253 kr
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‘A classic in the making for our times’ MONIQUE ROFFEY‘Haunting, beautiful…Anima will live with me for a long time’ CAL FLYN‘A beautiful book of passion and adventure… She is simply sublime’ HORATIO CLAREThe spellbinding new book by the prizewinning writer Kapka Kassabova tells the story of her time with the last moving pastoralists in Europe: a gripping portrayal of human-animal interdependence, and a plea for a different way of living.Living with one of these communities over the course of one summer, Kassabova experiences the intensity, brutality, beauty and isolation of their existence. She witnesses the epic, orchestrated activity of transhumance – the seasonal movement of vast herds of sheep, along with shepherds and dogs. As she becomes attuned to the sacrifices inherent in this work and the rich histories that shaped this Balkan region, Kassabova finds herself drawn deeper into the tangled relationships at the heart of the small community.Anima is an extraordinary portrayal of pastoral life, where humans and animals exist in profound interdependence. Kassabova conjures the spirit of this remarkable place with intimacy and empathy, and helps us imagine how we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world.**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND NEW STATESMAN**