Premio Planeta de Novela (Planeta Novel Prize)
The Albanian Affairs
A lyrical novel about love and secrets around a figure of foreign origin, where cultural difference and old wounds shape the present.
Work Information
A lyrical novel about love and secrets around a figure of foreign origin, where cultural difference and old wounds shape the present.
A lyrical novel about love and secrets around a figure of foreign origin, where cultural difference and old wounds shape the present.
Book Information
- Publisher
- McPherson
- Published
- 2006-11-01
- Pages
- 180 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.26 x 1.96 x 21.29 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780929701790
- ISBN-10
- 0929701798
- Price
- 4234 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
During Enver Hoxha's totalitarian rule following World War Two, Albania became the most isolated and paranoid European state. Two brothers -- sons of a war hero and domineering official -- come to embody the only possibilities for life under these conditions: capitulation or resistance. Viktor becomes a willing soldier and brings home a beautiful girl, Helena, as his wife. Ismail, shunned by his father and by nature a poet, is emotionally blinded from the mysterious death of his mother when he was 4. As an irresistible attraction develops between Helena and Ismail, they are compelled to uncover the long-hidden tragedy to which they are all heirs.