🇦🇱Albania

Kadare takes the reader into Albanian tradition and the mechanisms of violence. In this novel the Kanun shapes individual lives, including those seemingly outside its reach. In The Palace of Dreams, Kadare turns surveillance into a dystopian metaphor; The General of the Dead Army revisits war memory. Kongoli focuses on an ordinary man’s thwarted life. Vorpsi and Dones’s Italian-language books broaden the selection through women’s perspectives and border-crossing experience.