A Girl in Exile
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When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book. As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication – to Linda B. ‘Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing... executed with an elegant combination of horror, absurdity, indignation, and other-worldliness... A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work’ Independent
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Counting this as my Albania Book around the world.
This is my first Kadare novel, although it won't be my last. I didn't love this one, and although the end made it much better and I did like the metaphor of the girl's exile in comparison to the country's exile (that was very clever and powerful) the rest of the book was just a bit....cringeee. I don't know if it was a the translation but the way the narrator talked about women just came off a bit creepy and it made me disinterested in the book.
