Border

Kapka Kassabova’s Border is a haunting travel narrative exploring the regions where Bulgaria meets Turkey and Greece. Kassabova blends memoir, political history, and reportage to reveal how borders shape identities and trauma across generations. Her prose is lyrical yet sharp, capturing landscapes marked by surveillance, smuggling, and displacement. She listens closely to the stories of locals, whose lives reflect the violence and absurdity of shifting political lines. The result is an atmospheric, emotionally resonant portrait of a region defined by its fractures.