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Dragoi i fildishtë

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Në fillim të viteve '90, Genci Skampa, reporter në një të përditshme, ftohet në një takim gazetarësh ballkanikë në Paris. Prej andej rrëfimi shpërngulet në kohë dhe hapësirë, vendoset në Pekin, në mjediset studentore të fillimit të viteve '60, ku protagonisti ka kryer studimet. 

192 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1999

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Fatos Kongoli

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Fatos Kongoli has recently become one of the most forceful and convincing representatives of contemporary Albanian prose.

He studied mathematics in China during the tense years of the Sino-Albanian alliance.

Kongoli chose not to publish any major works during the dictatorship. Rather than this, he devoted his creative energies at the time to an obscure and apolitical career as a mathematician, and waited for the storm to pass.

His narrative talent and individual style only really emerged, at any rate, in the nineties, since the fall of the communist dictatorship.

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11 reviews13 followers
November 6, 2016
Një libër aspak "i lehtë" për tu lexuar. Herë herë i jepja 5 yje autorit për gjenialitetin, për mënyrën e jashtzakonshme të shkrimit. Herë herë historia bëhej e lodhshme, e tejzgjatur. Ndoshta nuk jam unë në kohën e duhur jetësore për ta lexuar ktë libër (besoj shumë në ktë lloj argumenti). Ndoshta, është nga ato libra që do një përqëndrim të plotë gjatë gjithë kohës. Në mëdyshje mes 4 ose 5 "yjeve" vendosa për 5 në momentin e fundit. Arsyeja është sepse jam dashuruar me mënyrën e shkrimit të Kongolit, dhe kishte shumë momente që tregimi më mahniste ! Pavarësisht se mund " të humbasësh" disa herë madje në lexim, shumë shpejt e rigjen fuqishëm thelbin. Kongoli meriton shumë më shumë vlerësim sesa ka në moment. Jua sugjeroj plotësisht librin.
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July 15, 2024
Kongoli needs an editor, for his writing is too repetitive, frequently repeating a phrase just a few sentences later. As for the story, it's the first YA Albanian story that I've read, and I didn't like it. The girl on the cover doesn't show up in the story until 80% of the way through, and she's just someone who he met and saw for a short while. Which is a problem, because it does a disservice to the story because I keep wondering when this girl will show up. Also, hieroglyphics are Egyptian writing. Not Chinese.
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67 reviews14 followers
July 6, 2025
This book is my favorite of the two written by Mr. Kongoli, and again recommended by him. It, like the first I read, includes some phenomenal storytelling, and yet, from my perspective, it goes even further than the first one. I really enjoyed how the writer makes the differences between Eastern and Western Europe very visible, whether it be in a subtle manner or very direct. The book even ends on similar notes, which echos the sufferings of whole nations due to the viles of the communist regimes. I also enjoyed how Kongoli describes the regime in Albania, with the main character being a son of a relatively important family in Albania (due to friendship ties to a minister) and their downfall due to said ties - a painful reminisce to real life stories that I've heard from my fellow compatriots. In one of the chapters of the book, the persecution of the countries' intelligentsia was encaptured with it being described wonderfully-and-painfully at the same time as the cemeteries' cultural life being more vibrant and knowledgeable than that of the living on the Albanian lands. Finally, I would also like to point out the ivory dragon as a symbol of being accepted from and within another culture, another country, something that Albanian, as evidenced throughout the book, thought impossible at the moment.
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November 18, 2022
Unë fatkeqsisht nuk kam lexuar shumë libra nga autorë shqiptarë. Tani do të vazhdoj me libra të tjerë të Kongolit, sepse stili i tij i të shkruarit më pëlqen. Ndonjëherë historia është e mirë dhe shkrimi i keq, por jo në këtë libër. Ia rekomandoj njerëzve ta lexojnë. Si unë, për të mos gënjyer, do hutohen ca gjatë leximit, por shpreoj t’u pëlqejë. Dhe fundja të na thonë dhe ta përshtypjet e tyre.
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9 reviews1 follower
June 27, 2023
Nuk jam e sigurt neqoftese stili i shkrimit me pelqeu ose jo. Fillimi te ngjallte interesi por me vone u shua disi dhe u be i lodhshem per mua.
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