Indignity

A magical literary feat and one of the most touching books I ve read this year’ Stuart Jeffries, Spectator ‘Beguiling and moving… a clever hybrid, happily exploiting the many possibilities of telling a life story… also an oblique history of 20th-century Albania, illuminating all its perversities, absurdities and ruthlessness’ William Boyd, Observer. An imaginative investigation into historical injustice, dignity and truth — told through the story of a family from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the dawn of Communism in the Balkans