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The Country Where No One Ever DiesAuthor: Ornela Vorpsi Translators: Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck Eastern European Literature Series November 2009 120 pages, Dimensions: 5.5 x 8 Paperback, 9781564785688 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $10.36 
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Book Description
A young girl’s father is constantly forcing her to kiss him, and her aunt predicts that she will grow up to be a whore. With Albania’s communist regime crumbling around them, sex, dictatorship, and death are inescapable subjects for the girl and her family—though the protagonist of The Country Where No One Ever Dies always confronts the ridiculousness of her often brutal reality with unflappable irony and a peculiar kind of common sense. Her name and age changing from moment to moment, she is an unforgettable portrait of the imagination under siege, while The Country Where No One Ever Dies is itself a one-of-a-kind atlas to a land where black comedy is simply a way of life.
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About the Author
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Ornela Vorpsi was born in Tirana, Albania and now lives in Paris. The Country Where No One Ever Dies was her first novel and won several prizes in Italy, including the Grinzane Cavour and Viareggio Prizes. It has since been published in fourteen languages. |
About the Translators
| Robert Elsie is the author of fifty books on Albania and its culture, including numerous literary translations from Albanian. |
| Janice Mathie-Heck is a poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. Most recently, her essay on the poetry of Visar Zhiti appeared in Mehr Licht!. |
Praise
“Filled with poetic and gracious sentences. . . . Read her, this novel is delightful.”—Le Figaro Magazine“Both ironic and lucid, Ornela Vorpsi’s prose is as lively as she is.”—Le Monde
“Ornela Vorpsi opposes the coherence and continuity of her narrative to the madness of her dysfunctional family and of a totalitarian government for which brutal deaths and malevolence are common practice.”—Le Magazine Littéraire