A short border handbook

A short border handbook

by Kaplani, Gkazment

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After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasising accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centr…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :A short border handbook / Gazmend Kapllani ; translated from the Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife.

Summary

After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasising accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Portobello
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:161 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781846271496, 1846271495, 9780997316988, 0997316985
  • oclc:ocn310157495
  • LC Classification:PA5638.21.A65
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8919910495092

Subjects

Albanais -- Biographies. -- Grèce Albanians Albanians -- Biography. -- Greece Albanischer Einwanderer Autobiographical fiction Biografie Biographies Emigration and immigration Erlebnisbericht Geschichte 1991-2009 Greece Greece -- Emigration and immigration Griechenland Homes IMMIGRANTS Immigrants -- Biography. -- Greece Kaplani, Gkazment

Writers

Kaplani, Gkazment

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