A girl in exile
Subtitle: requiem for Linda B.
By: Ismail Kadare ; translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson
Edition: First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781619029163
Subjects: Suicide victims; Social conditions; Communism; Dramatists; Fiction
Other titles: Requiem for Linda B.
Work titles: E penguara
Description: While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl--Linda B.--has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession. He soon learns that Linda's family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital, and that she committed suicide. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B. Through layers of intrigue, her story gradually unfolds: how she loved Rudian from a distance, and the risks she was prepared to take so that she could get close to him. He becomes captivated by her story, and disturbed at how he might be culpable for her fate.