Award-winning travel writer and poet, Kapka Kassabova returns to the country of her birth in STREET WITHOUT A NAME: Travels Through Bulgaria Past and Present. After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club, but beyond the clichés about undrinkable plonk, cheap property, and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity.  Born in Sofia, Kapka grew up under Communism, got away just as soon as she could, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since.  In this revealing and entertaining memoir, Kapka revisits Bulgaria and her own muddled relationship to it, travelling back to the scenes of her childhood, sampling its bizarre tourist sites, uncovering its history of bloodshed and blurred borders, and capturing the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of her own and her country's past. 

Laura Barber at Portobello Books acquired World English Language rights (excluding New Zealand where Kapka lived for several years, where the book has been bought by Geoff Walker of Penguin NZ, who have previously published her fiction) for publication in summer 2008.