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12%OFFClarissa Botsford - Sworn Virgin - 9781908276681 - V9781908276681
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Sworn Virgin

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Description for Sworn Virgin Paperback. Hana Doda is an ambitious literature student in cosmopolitan Tirana. Mark Doda is a raki-drinking, chain-smoking shepherd, living alone deep in the Albanian mountains. In fact, they are the same person. Hana has become Mark, but what will become of the Sworn Virgin when she moves to America? BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 198.

When Hana’s dying uncle calls her back from the city to the family home in the Albanian mountains, he tries to marry her to a local man who could run the household. Unable to accept the arranged marriage and determined to remain independent, Hana’s only option is to follow tradition and vow to live the rest of her life in chastity as a man – and so Hana becomes Mark. For a sworn virgin, there is no way back.

Years later, Mark – now a raki-drinking, chain-smoking shepherd – receives an invitation to join a cousin in the US. This may ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276681
SKU
V9781908276681
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Clarissa Botsford
Born in Durres, Albania, Elvira Dones is a novelist, screenwriter and documentary film-maker currently dividing her time between the US, Switzerland and Albania. After seven novels in Albanian, she wrote the two most recent in Italian, her adopted language: Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin, 2007) and Piccola guerra perfetta (Small Perfect War, 2010) about the Kosovo war. In her prize-winning documentary ... Read more

Reviews for Sworn Virgin
‘Elvira Dones is one of the most distinguished Albanian authors writing today. Astonishing, brilliant, and unabashed by taboos of any kind, she is as much at ease in Albanian as in the rest of European literature . . . The protagonist of this novel passes through all the tribulations of this frightening transformation like the actor in some extraordinary role ... Read more

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