TY - JOUR

T1 - LIKE A PRISONER: STORIES OF ENDURANCE (TRANS. J. HODGSON), FATOS LUBONJA (2022)

T2 - Reviewed by Zoe Lambert, Lancaster University

AU - Lambert, Zoe

PY - 2023/12/6

Y1 - 2023/12/6

N2 - 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 anddreams to continue. Here, the writer’s own story is in bearing witness to thestories of others, but without offering easy consolation.

AB - 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 anddreams to continue. Here, the writer’s own story is in bearing witness to thestories of others, but without offering easy consolation.

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

VL - 13

SP - 217

EP - 219

JO - Short Fiction in Theory and Practice

JF - Short Fiction in Theory and Practice

SN - 2043-0701

IS - 2

ER -