Not a lot to be honest, can’t read much when I’m editing, but
this
review in the Economist of Kapka
Kassabova’s new
book stood out like dogs’ thingummies. It says:
Kapka Kassabova’s poignant, erudite and witty third book, “Border”, brings hidden history vividly to light.
I am sure it does. I am sure it is poignant, witty and
erudite. Kapka is all of the above. But it is not her third book.
I edited two novels by her, Reconnaissance
(Penguin, 1999) and Love in the Land of
Midas (Penguin, 2000). There had already been a terrific first book of
poems, All Roads Lead to the Sea
(AUP, 1997) which I tried to get shortlisted for the Montana Book Awards but my
bone-headed co-judge (name available on application) wasn’t having it, and its
successor Dismemberment (AUP, 1998).
That’s
four books so far, isn’t it? Kapka’s website
is, how shall we say, economical but does list the tango book Twelve Minutes of Love, (Portobello,
2011), the third novel Villa Pacifica
(Penguin, 2010) – which I have never seen and had no idea existed – and the
memoir Street Without a Name (Portobello,
2008). There are also the Bloodaxe
collections Someone Else’s Life
(2003) and Geography for the Lost
(2007).
Seems to me that Border is
her 10th book. But hey, I only got up to Stage III maths.
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