Like a Prisoner: Stories of Endurance
by Fatos Lubonja
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The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and generally survive, all in different ways. They may conform, rebel, construct alternative realities of the imagination, cultivate hope, cling to memories of lost love, or devisenincreasingly strange and surreal strategies of resistance.The characters inndifferent stories are linked to one another, and show more in their human relationships create a total picture of a secret and terrifying world. In the prisoners' back stories, the anecdotes they tell, and their political discussions, the book also reaches out beyond the walls and barbed wire to give the reader a panoramic picture of life in totalitarian Albania. show lessTags
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- Original title
- Jetë Burgu
- Original publication date
- 2021
- Important places
- Tirana, Albania
- Important events
- Death of Hoxha
- First words
- The sight of that repellent human whirlpool has remained my only clear memory of that first day.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)At this point in the journey I think that I have written in order to accept them as my own, and to see these clothes, and these ordeals that I at first so determinedly refused, as belonging now to me, a part of my 'true' self, and realising that this wide open space where we will walk with body and soul at ease, with a meaning to life and death in our hearts, can only be found by taking stock of the shackles we have left behind.
- Original language
- Albanian
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.9913 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Baltic and other Indo-European languages Other Indo-European languages Albanian Albanian fiction
- LCC
- PG9621 .L74 .J4813 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Albanian
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
