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To the Lake

By Kapka Kassabova

To the Lake Essays & Short Stories

To the Lake

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The celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of Europe Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's past and the secret of its enduring allure. 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 historic crossroads. The lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania, and Greece, and crowned by the old Via Egnatia, which once connected Rome to Constantinople. A former trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, this lake region remains one of Eurasia's most diverse corners. Meanwhile, with their remote rock churches, changeable currents, and large population of migratory birds, the lakes live in their own time. By exploring on water and land the stories of poets, fishermen, and caretakers, misfits, rulers, and inheritors of war and exile, Kassabova uncovers the human destinies shaped by the lakes. Setting out to resolve her own ancestral legacy, Kassabova locates a deeper inquiry into how geography and politics imprint themselves upon families and nations, one that confronts her with universal questions about human suffering and the capacity for change.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2020-08-04
Publication Date:
2020-08-04
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1644450267
ISBN13:
9781644450260
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
516 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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