The literary path from Kovachevitsa

This perfect mountain village in Bulgaria's Rhodope range is top of the list for music festivals I've attended (which I wrote about for The Arts Desk ; only Svalbard has excelled it for remoteness). I went armed with two books, the only ones I could find in terms of literature translated into English - Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter and Kapka Kassabova's Street Without a Name. By coincidence the…