Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey

By Michele Levy

In summer 1968, Anna Rossi flees a burning America with nothing but a restless hunger and a Eurail Pass.

She crosses an ocean to escape a country falling apart at the seams, never expecting to find herself on the other side of the world. A trip with a friend through Western Europe transforms into a solo adventure through the landscapes of Cold War Eastern Europe- a descent into culture and memory, and a longing that reaches into the marrow of who she is.

Drifting deeper into the region, Anna moves through ancient cities and mountain villages, dances in kafanas, and collects strangers and fragments of a violent past. And the farther east she travels, the more she feels herself dissolving into something larger and older than she can name.

When the road leads at last to a remote village in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains, she meets a charismatic man whose people have been robbed of their name, language, and right to exist. Brilliant, scarred, he is more alive than anyone she has ever known. They build something tender, all-consuming, but perilous. For when love inside a surveillance state collides with politics, the world that closes around them does not forgive.

If you have ever longed for an intense love story that breaks your heart wide open, this is a lyrical and emotionally devastating story of love and loss that leads to self-discovery.

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"Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey is an ambitious undertaking. Rich with drama and passion, it's a poignant story of love and misadventure..." -The Manhattan Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684334861
• ISBN13: 9781684334865
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Black Rose Writing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"