in albanian:
Dashuri e huaj
(novel)
Çabej publishing
house,
Tirana, 1997
in italian:
Senza bagagli
(romanzo)
Besa Editrice,
Lecce, 1998
Dashuri e huaj
(Foreign love)
"Besides the fact that she had to carefully watch her mouth and her thoughts, Klea Borova had almost everything she could dream of. One day she even got the most precious gift the Party could (very seldom) give: the right to travel to a foreign country, to the World. Klea flies to a tiny island in the Baltic Sea, and falls in love: not with the breathtaking landscape, nor with the western wealth, but with a foreigner. This love makes Klea "betray" her socialist republic, her family, her friends and – her son: she won't go back to Albania But will it be the beginning of a free life, or the end of all free dreams? Or both? A well-known presenter for Albanian TV watchers during the '80s, the author of this first and interesting novel commited the "crime of betraying" her country, just like the main character in her novel. Elvira Dones now lives and works in Switzerland."
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