LIKE A PRISONER: STORIES OF ENDURANCE (TRANS. J. HODGSON), FATOS LUBONJA (2022) : Reviewed by Zoe Lambert, Lancaster University

Lambert, Zoe (2023) LIKE A PRISONER: STORIES OF ENDURANCE (TRANS. J. HODGSON), FATOS LUBONJA (2022) : Reviewed by Zoe Lambert, Lancaster University. Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, 13 (2). pp. 217-219. ISSN 2043-0701

Abstract

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.