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Balkan Rhapsody

Maria Kassimova-Moisset

Balkan Rhapsody

The Balkan peninsula during the first decades of the last century - characters' fates meet in a world filled with religious taboos, superstitions, and petrified moral norms, between Albania's refugee roads, Kemal Ataturk's modern Turkey and Bulga
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The Balkan peninsula during the first decades of the last century - characters' fates meet in a world filled with religious taboos, superstitions, and petrified moral norms, between Albania's refugee roads, Kemal Ataturk's modern Turkey and Bulgaria, still unstable. Along with the dramatic storyline, pierced by pain but illuminated by the freedom of loving and being loved, a modern woman carries on her inner dialogue with her ancestors, in order to explain the emotional, ethical and personal decisions of those whose blood flows in her veins...

  1. Contemporary Bulgarian Fiction
  2. Contemporary Fiction

Maria Kassimova-Moisset

Maria Kassimova-Moisset studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Her career as a journalist began with the newspaper "Standard", where she wrote about theater, cinema and music. She was contributor to the daily newspapers "24 Hours," "SEGA" and "Democracy", and editor in chief of several magazines, such as "One", ELLE and "Capital LIGHT". Currently, she works as a freelancer for various media.

"Close Encounters with Mixed Feelings" is her first collection of stories, acclaimed by Bulgarian readers. "Balkan Rhapsody" is her debut novel.

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