Sacrifices on the Altar of Ambition: Agamemnon’s Daughter by Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare is fast becoming one of my favourite writers. An Albanian who has divided his time between his native land and Paris since the early 90s, Kadare ingeniously captures the disorientating experience of life under dictatorship. In some ways,…

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A Sarajevo Elegy

I fell in love with Sarajevo last week. But this was no rosy-tinted romance, no naïve foreigner's passion. Although, it's true - being a Balkans outsider means I will always be ignorant and unable fully to grasp its historical complexities.…

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