When she was just a child, Kapka Kassabova (Sofia, 1973) spent her summers with her family in a seemingly idyllic village in southern Bulgaria called Michurin during the Soviet era (now Tsarevo). "I could consider myself privileged, because with my parents, who were scientists, we went on vacation, while many of the children I knew spent their summers working in the tobacco fields," she recalls now, coinciding with the publication of the first Catalan translation of one of her books. Border (Comanegra, 2025; translation by Ariadna Pous), which presented at the CCCB Kosmopolis festival“At that time, I couldn’t have known that in the villages of the so-called Red Riviera, one out of every two waiters worked for the Bulgarian State Security, and that there were also many KGB and Stasi agents secretly watching the East German vacationers: some of them were making their way through the forest, hoping for a new life far from communism,” she explains.