This book was actually smuggled out of Communist Albania by the author and a French friend. The preface tells this story of literary intrigue, and makes the reading of the novella that starts this collection feel more real. I'm now eager to read The Successor which forms the second part of the same ...
Rating: 2.0-2.5 starsI wanted to enjoy these stories more than I did but they weren't particularly more original or affecting than others I've read; writing about the paranoia and corrosive brutality of dictatorships stretches back at least 2,000 years to Suetonius and Tacitus.The first story, "Agam...
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