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...Bridges of Madison County is the paradigm for books of this sort. All Thin Untrue books must be handsomely bound, like something an immaculately groomed man would tote in the hand not clutching his leather attache. If these books were to be written in, and translated from, Albanian by Albania's premier husband-and-wife writer-translator team, so much the better...
...minority myself," said Nini, a second-generation Albanian-American. "I don't discriminate, and I don't like people that do that kind of thing...
...stubbing subtexts are hidden here. Munro's gender agenda is neatly buried in her quietly daring art. An Albanian Virgin, for example, spans half a century and half the globe to join vastly different lives. A Canadian tourist who changes her itinerary in the mountains of southeastern Europe is captured by tribal Ghegs and put to work. Village routines induce a hypnotic adjustment that virtually erases her former self. The ways of these isolated Christians are bloody and strict. A woman can dodge her tribal fate as breeder and toiler only by renouncing sex, living alone and dressing...
...wife Cordelia. He has lived with her for 10 years, and in that time he has almost stopped noticing her theatrical gestures and her peculiar style of speech: "Never having cared to ask her about it, Richard had had fantasies of an Andorran nanny, a childhood in a posh Albanian household that had left no other mark, before concluding that Cordelia just spoke Cordelian, a pronunciational idiolect." When friends mock the way she says her name ("Nggornndeenlia"), Richard tries not to be amused...
...literary output of Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, the world's most avidly Stalinist ruler until his death in 1985, is broad in reach; a set of his collected works sprawls across a good meter of bookshelf. But the public's appetite never matched the government's passion for printing the dictator's often paranoid musings on Albania's sole true path to proletariat rule and his lonely struggle against nonbelievers. Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively...