The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri

I suspect this book is better than I found it because I didn't particularly care for the author's self-indulgent (to me, anyway) playing with style. There's a lot to unpack in this fairly blatant allegory about modern Albania but I got tired of working so hard. The book is not helped by a translation that, while it may be literally accurate, does not read fluidly. I have no doubt the translator, an Albanian scholar now resident in the US, knows both language well. But she seemed a bit too slavishly intent on reproducing what I can only assume was the exact diction and syntax of the original. Accurate, very possibly. The way English is used, nope.