Like a Prisoner bears witness to the political prisoners of Enver Hoxha’s regime,
but it is also a testimony to the power of storytelling itself.how it wonderfully allows the uncertainty of the stories the inmates tell each other to underpin their humanity; the folk tales, the gossip, the rumours and whispered secrets allow their hopes and
dreams to continue. Here, the writer’s own story is in bearing witness to the
stories of others, but without offering easy consolation.