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Intergenerational memoir structured as a letter from Scego to his niece, Soraya, Cassandra in Mogadiscio recounts the historical turmoil of twentieth-century Somalia through the private affairs of a family. The linguistic component is essential: Scego mixes Italian with the sounds of Somali, in an expressive creolization that stages the compromises of trauma and diaspora. The […]

Ibrahimi tells the contemporary history of Albania and the transition between monarchy and communism through the stories of four generations of women. The life of the protagonist Saba reverberates the mechanisms of the Albanian matriarchal society in an exemplary way, returning a plot that alternates particular and universal, familiar and epic. The female condition becomes […]

The novel is divided into two geographically and culturally specular parts: the northern mountains of Albania, immovable in the precepts of tradition, and the USA, a space of rediscovery and liberation of identity. Gender identity, first denied and then reconquered, is the conceptual connection of the novel: Hana's rebellion against the burrneshë code serves as […]

Smith grafts comic tones into an epic framework to tell the cultural conflict suffered by second generation London migrants. The Jones and Iqbal families fortuitously come into contact by staging a series of cultural circumstances that give rise now to frictions now to hybridizations, now to discrepancies now to compromises. The dental metaphor that serves […]