Street Without a Name (31 page)

I owe this book and my deep gratitude to Laura Barber at Portobello who conceived the idea for it, and patiently nurtured it from bumbling beginnings, through messy incontinence, to its present form.

I have been steadied along the way by the firm hand of my agent Isobel Dixon of Blake Friedmann, and for this I thank her and count my blessings.

I am grateful to my family for not being a pain and graciously
pretending to trust my unreliable vision of things past and present.

In my reading on Bulgaria, I found the following books useful, inspiring, or both:
The Iron Fist
by Alexenia Dimitrova (Artnik, London, 2005),
Az jivyah socialisma
edited by Georgi Gospodinov (Janet 45 Editions, Sofia, 2006),
The Balkans 1804–1999
by Misha Glenny (Granta, London, 1999),
The Miss Stone Affair
by Teresa Carpenter (Simon & Schuster, London, 2003),
Bulgarski Rodove I and II
by Mariana Purvanova (East and West, Sofia, 2005–2006), the lyrics on
p. 35
are by Naiden Valchev,
Crown of Thorns: the Reign of King
Boris III of Bulgaria
by Stephane Groueff (Madison Books, Boulder, USA, 1998),
Danube
by Claudio Magris (Random House, London, 2001). And hats off to Anthony Georgieff of Bulgaria Air and Vagabond for producing and publishing intriguing investigative stories on Bulgaria old and new. They have been an inspiration.

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© Kapka Kassabova; on
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© Michael Wilson; on
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© Bulgarian Broadcasting Agency Agency BTA; on
p.278
© Anthony Georgieff; and on
p.327
© Catarina Leal. Reproduced by kind permission.

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