Like a Prisoner

Like a Prisoner
Fatos Lubonja, John Hodgson
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 180pg
15 Sep 2022 UK
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9781912545858
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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 devise increasingly strange and surreal strategies of resistance. The characters in different stories are linked to one another, and 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.
Lubonja' s telling of the events are gripping, and we learn that below any surface visible to outsiders, there was an intelligentsia, silenced by covert violence. If only their voice could have been heard and supported, how very different Albania would be today; Cental and Eastern European Review; The cinematic effect of Lubonja' s description is enhanced by his narrative deivces. . . In setting himself the task of exposing vested interests and corruption, Fatos Lubonja show' s that Albania still needs people of his intellectual and moral calibre;Times Literary Supplement
Fatos Lubonja is a writer and editor of the quarterly journal Perpjekja [Endeavor], a representative of the Forum for Democracy, and a leading figure in Albania' s political life. At twenty-three, Lubonja was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for "agitation and propaganda" after police found his diaries, which contained criticisms of Enver Hoxha. He was later re- sentenced without trail and spent a total of 17 years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement. He was released in 1991. Lubonja' s first book in English, Second Sentence: Inside the Albanian Gulag, was published to great acclaim by I. B. Tauris (2006) followed by False Apocalypse (Istros, 2015). Among his many literary prizes, he received the Alberto Moravia Prize for International Literature in 2002 and the Herder Prize for Literature in 2004 and the Prince Claus Award, 2015.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781912545858
Published: 15 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Istros Books
Publisher: Istros Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 180

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