Mud Sweeter than Honey - Voices of Communist Albania

Prize-winning reportage from Albania - a polyphonic account of life under Enver Hoxha's regime, in arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of all

About the author

Malgorzata (Margo) Rejmer (b. 1985) is a graduate of cultural studies at the University of Warsaw. In 2009, her first full-length novel, Toksymia, was published. In 2013, she wrote Bucharest: Dust and Blood, for which she was nominated for Polityka Passport in 2013. Mud Sweeter than Honey is her fourth book. She is now working on a follow-up reportage about contemporary Albania.

Summary

Prize-winning reportage from Albania - a polyphonic account of life under Enver Hoxha's regime, in arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of all

Foreword

Prize-winning reportage from Albania - a polyphonic account of life under Enver Hoxha's regime, in arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of all

Additional text

This outstanding record of recollections of those who lived through it makes for chilling reading . . . It is impossible to imagine a title that better captures the squalid and sinister horror of life in Albania under communism

Product details

• Authors: Margo Rejmer
• Assisted by: Zosia Krasodomska-Jones (Translation), Antonia Lloyd Jones (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781529411461
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1146-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Essays, Reportage & collected journalism, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Albania, Reportage, journalism or collected columns