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February 25, 1991: in Albania in those years there was a state in which the communist regime had collapsed and the discontent of the people resulted in demonstrations, the destruction of dictatorial symbols and mass exoduses, after forty-five years of limitations and controls, the first one of Brindisi. Just in Brindisi, the thirty-year-old Alexander Toto […]

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 […]