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Selatin Softa

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir

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Selatin Softa, a Turk, was born and grew up in the small town of Kru- movgrad, Bulgaria, during the 1960s and 1970s. In his early teen years, he started the daunting task of learning English through listening to the Voice of America radio broadcasts and correspondence courses out of So- fia, the capital of Bulgaria. He spent a year in Sweden as a refugee near the end of Bulgaria’s despicable name change campaign before receiving a grant for Bulgarian Turks to come study in America. He graduated from Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, where he met his wife of 19 years, and settled in Eastern Iowa. They now live on a small farm and Selatin spends his free time gardening, reading, writing and keeping up to date on current events in the world h ...more

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Crack in the Curtain

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