Bulgarian author Kapka Kassabova was given a rave review Saturday by the UK Guardian newspaper, for her newest book, �Street Without A Name'. Kassabova's book focuses on the depth of change triggered by the events of 1989 in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe.

Kassabova and her book were given a huge thumbs up by the newspaper "It is a beautifully structured book: its closing pages take you back to the beginning, by which time you will know and feel for Bulgaria much more deeply than you did when you started. The country, you will learn, seems to have turned up remarkable women regularly during its history; it strikes me that, in her quiet way, Kapka Kassabova could be one of them."

The review states that "Kassabova is acutely conscious of Bulgaria's status as a poor relation. Not even a relation. A simmering pot of ethnic and historical tensions, when they're not beating each other up, which at least meant their wartime record against the Jews was better than many other countries', they're glowering at the Romanians over the Danube."

It continues "Going back now she finds the place full of gangsters, poverty, trauma-inducing public toilets, and shocking roads; much like before, then, but with gangsters. Who will, as she sighs, eventually launder all their money and become respectable."

Kassabova left Bulgaria when she was a teenager and now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland. �Street Without A Name' is not her only famous book, her other books include Love in the Land of Midas, 2000; Someone Else's Life, 2003 and Geography for the Lost, 2007.

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