A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth by Kapllani, Gazmend
A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth by Kapllani, Gazmend

A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth

A Short Border Handbook is a cogent and comical journey into the depths of dictatorship, migration, and...
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Author: Gazmend Kapllani
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A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth by Kapllani, Gazmend

A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth

$27.48
A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth by Kapllani, Gazmend

A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth

$27.48
Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Short Border Handbook is a cogent and comical journey into the depths of dictatorship, migration, and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Enver Hoxha's Stalinist madhouse, longing for the West, only to find yet more visible and invisible borders on his arrival.

After spending his childhood in Stalinist Albania during the Cold War, and fantasizing about life across the border, the unnamed protagonist (based closely on the author) flees to Greece, the only country in the Balkans that belonged to the "Western bloc"⎯only to get banged up in a detention center. As he and his fellow immigrants try to make sense of the new world, they find jobs and plan their future lives in Greece, imagining success that is always beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. In a narrative both ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon "border syndrome"⎯a mental state, as much as a geographical experience⎯to create a brilliantly observed, amusing, and perceptive debut. And an ever timely one at that.



Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Publisher: New Europe Books
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780997316988

About the Author
Gazmend Kapllani, the author of three books, teaches creative writing and European history at Emerson College and was previously a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute and a writer-in-residence at Wellesley College. He has held talks at numerous colleges and universities including the University of Michigan, Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, and Bennington College. Born in 1967 in Albania, he crossed the mountainous border into Greece illegally, on foot, in 1991. In Greece he worked as a builder, a cook, and a kiosk attendant while earning a doctorate at Athens University. For more than ten years he was a columnist for the leading Greek daily Ta Nea. A Short Border Handbook, written in Greek, was a bestseller in Greece and translated into several languages. In 2017 it received the prestigious Italy's Letterature dal Fronte (Literature from the Borders) Prize of Cassino, Italy, dedicated to Greek literature for the year. Kapllani's other books include the novels My Name is Europe (2010, Greece; 2013, France) and The Last Page (2012, Greece; 2015, France). He is currently working on a novel in Albanian and a short story collection in English.
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