
by Alan Taylor (Series Editor), Muriel Spark (Author), KapkaKassabova (Introduction)
Described by Edmund White as `a hilarious account of political and romantic intrigue', Territorial Rights tells the tale of aspiring art historian
Robert who encounters an enigmatic Bulgarian refugee, Lina, in the labyrinthine canals and streets of Venice.
This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between
November 2017 and September 2018.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: Centenary Edition
Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
Published: 05 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 1846974399
ISBN 13: 9781846974397
Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.
Kapka Kassabova is the author of Street without a Name (2008), the unsentimental story of a Communist childhood which was shortlisted for the Prix Europeen du Livre and the Dolman Travel Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times, the Scottish Review of Books and on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. Kassabova lives in the Scottish Highlands.