Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 202 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 1993. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Originally purported to be reportage, but has now been re-categorised as fiction. Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, when the country was still struggling to recover from the terrible damage inflicted by his regime. His account of the trip is built around his search for Petar Shapallo, a dentist from a remote village who had been forced into acting as a double for Hoxha, undergoing plastic surgery and kept under house arrest until Hoxha's death, when he was summarily turned out to fend for himself. Jones eventually makes contact with the broken lookalike, and travels the length of the country with him to visit places from his past. The only problem being that Shapallo didn't actually exist; in Jones's words, he is a fictive "metaphor" for the systematic rewriting by the Albanian state of each citizen's biografi (life story) in order to justify cruel and random punishments. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0864732562. ISBN/EAN: 9780864732569. Inventory No: 21040054.. 9780864732569

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In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely destination: Albania. What he found was a relentlessly bizarre world of half-truths and fictions, a world where your status and sometimes your life hinged on your biografi. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. Map.

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Bookseller: Manyhills Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21040054
Title: Biografi: An Albanian Quest
Author: Lloyd Jones
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0864732562
ISBN 13: 9780864732569
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Place of Publication: New Zealand
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; Biografi: An Albanian Quest
Bookseller catalogs: General; Fiction;

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