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It is 1890 when three young women head toward a meadow hidden in the woods outside the village of Shipkovtsi, Bulgaria. As Trina, Vella, and Dobrinka meet in front of an old monastery, a family treasure held secret for generations is revealed. In the end, there are three piles of gold-one in front of each sister-but one pile is bigger than the others. An inheritance has been unfairly divided, leaving two sisters feeling cheated. In ASHES of WARS, Radka Yakimov narrates the story of the descendents of two of those Bulgarian sisters. Reconstructed historically on the basis of recorded facts, stories handed down from generation to generation, and her own personal recollections, Yakimov chronicles the main events that impacted the lives of four generations of Bulgarians throughout the twentieth century. As she relays a saga about the twenty-three men, women, and children who escaped in search of a safer place, Yakimov takes her readers beyond the confines of Bulgaria into Yugoslavia, to a refugee camp in Trieste, and finally to new lives in Canada and America. ASHES of WARS profiles the courage, grit, and determination of the people of a beautiful Balkan country torn by wars and oppression, but sustained by hopes for a brighter future.
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RADKA YAKIMOV was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1965 she left the country and settled in Canada. She is a professional engineer and the author of Dreams and Shadows and Café "The Blue Danube". She and her husband currently reside in Toronto, spending part of each year in Bulgaria.
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" ... a full-bodied tapestry of stories, woven into and around the history of Bulgaria...wraps the saga in a blanket of unifying questions about endurance, family ties and the fine line between heritage and home. While the work focuses on hardships, hope is a recurring theme." Kirkus Reviews
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- PublisheriUniverse Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 146201982X
- ISBN 13 9781462019823
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
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