[Extract] The Loser by Fatos Kongoli Extract as it appears in Making the World Legible. Vilma was the apple of Xhoda’s eye. The lap dog was the apple of Vilma’s eye. I decided to poison Vilma’s dog. I poisoned Vilma’s white lap dog to take revenge. There wasn’t any other reason for doing it. Thesar Lumi, our narrator, is indeed a loser. At age 40, he's an alcoholic, still living with his parents, and working dead-end jobs when he works at all. The initial setting is Albania in , but most of the book relates Thesar's life story: essentially, the story of how growing up under a totalitarian regime turned him into the loser he is/5(3). · The Loser by Fatos Kongoli. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
by. Fatos Kongoli. · Rating details · ratings · 10 reviews. An impassioned indictment of government oppression, this novel follows the fortunes of Thesar Lumi, a laborer living under communist rule in Soviet-controlled Albania. At the center of the story is a crucial decision Lumi makes in the last days of the Second World War: he. The shortlists for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards have been finalised. The awards will be presented on 21 April in London. The T R Fyvel Book Award. The Loser by Fatos Kongoli, Seren. Holy Warriors: A journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes, Portobello The Art of Political Murder: Who killed Bishop Gerardi? by Francisco Goldman, Atlantic Books. Titulli: Kufoma. Origjinali: Kufoma. Pas 'Ne të tre', 'Karuseli', 'I humburi', që e kanë renditur autorin në rradhën e prozatorëve më të suksesshëm të viteve të fundit, romani i katërt i Fatos Kongolit, 'Kufoma', është padyshim një hap cilësor dhe ambicioz.
The first of Fatos Kongoli’s novels to be translated into English—and the first novel he wrote after a career as a mathematician in communist Albaina—The Loser evokes the terror, paranoia and despair of the communist experience in Albania through the person of Thesar Lumi, a young man from a dusty and remote town who finds himself caught up in the series of large and small tragedies of daily life in a dictatorial regime. Vilma was the apple of Xhoda’s eye. The lap dog was the apple of Vilma’s eye. I decided to poison Vilma’s dog. I poisoned Vilma’s white lap dog to take revenge. The Loser by Fatos Kongoli. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
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