by Kapka Kassabova · Marchialy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782381340418
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«Elixir: Dans la vallée, à la fin des temps» is the non-fiction travel work by Kapka Kassabova, published by Marchialy in paperback (571 pages, in French).
In a Bulgarian valley with a preserved ecosystem, numerous medicinal plants grow. Kapka Kassabova approaches the last keepers of an ancestral oral knowledge and, seeking the elixir, crosses paths with seers, poets and healers. She brings together remedies, mythology and rituals in an ode to nature and a call to rethink our bond with the land.
Work originally published in English in 2023; the present French edition, translated by Morgane Saysana, came out in January 2024. The work was nominated for the Highland Book Prize.
For readers of travel and nature literature, and for those interested in ethnobotany and Bulgaria's rural traditions.
Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. She is a bilingual writer in English, which is her main literary language, and in Bulgarian which is her mother tongue. Her books have been translated into at least twenty languages.
