Bücher von Gezim Hajdari

Bitter Grass was written in 1976 in my last year of high school in Albania. It was refused by the government publisher in Tirana, where the censor said, 'the texts in this collection do not deal with the theme of our socialist village, the transformations that socialism has brought under the guidance of the Party are entirely absent...'

Stigmate / Vrage appeared in a bilingual edition in 2002 and here receives its first complete English translation. "My identity is Gezim, my body is my fatherland," says the author.