Someone Else's Life - Couverture souple

Kassabova, Kapka

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852246170 ISBN 13 : 9781852246174

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. In Someone else's life 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.

'In the suitcase that she has mentally lived out of since she was a little girl, Kapka Kassabova has brought the turbulent memories of 20th century European history with her to New Zealand, where she recollects bad dreams in comparative tranquillity, and always with the phrasing of a born musician. If her finely pitched lyricism is the first thing that strikes you, the second is the richness of sympathy that lies behind it. As if she owed her gifts and blessings to them, she speaks for the generations before her whose lives were ruined. The result is a truly international picture of what it means to be young and sensitive in the modern world. In a short life, she has already established a unique literary identity' - Clive James.

'Someone else's life tells with supreme clarity and fearless candor what it means to be adrift in the last years of the 20th century and the first of the 21st; it is a book of perpetual exile, of endless comings and goings, in a world that offers neither stability, nor salvation. Still, the very intelligence of this book - skeptical, riveting, passionate suggests that there may be an answer to the uncertainty that is everywhere around us' - Mark Strand.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kapka Kassabova was born in 1973 and grew up in Bulgaria until she was 16. Her family emigrated first to Britain, then to New Zealand where she lived until 2004. She now lives in Edinburgh as a cultural mongrel working on a simplified version of her East European-Kiwi-Scots accent. She has published two poetry collections with Bloodaxe in the UK, Someone else's life (2003), including work from two collections published in New Zealand as well as new poems, and Geography for the lost (2007). She has also published three novels, Reconnaissance (Penguin NZ, 1999), winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Asia-Pacific, Love in the Land of Midas (Penguin NZ, 2001) and Villa Pacifica (Alma Books, 2010), and two memoirs, Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008), a coming of age story at the end of Communism, and Twelve Minutes of Love: a tango story (Portobello, 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852246170
• ISBN 13: 9781852246174
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible