{"product_id":"9781529411478-mud-sweeter-than-honey","title":"Mud Sweeter than Honey","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVoices of Communist Albania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrize-winning reportage \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom Albania - a polyphonic account of life under Enver Hoxha's regime, in arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of all\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . important enough to be added to the history curriculum\" \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading\"\u003ci\u003e History Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A moving evocation . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state.\" Clarissa de Waal, author of \u003ci\u003eALBANIA: PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Albania, enigmatic, mysterious Albania, was always the untold story of the Cold War, the 1989 revolutions and the fall of the Berlin Wall. \u003ci\u003eMud Sweeter Than Honey\u003c\/i\u003e goes a very long way indeed towards putting that right\" \u003ci\u003eNew European\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism. Every day, many of its citizens were thrown into prisons and forced labour camps for daring to think independently, for rebelling against the regime or trying to escape - the consequences of their actions were often tragic and irreversible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMud Sweeter than Honey\u003c\/i\u003e gives voice to those who lived in Albania at that time - from poets and teachers to shoe-makers and peasant farmers, and many others whose aspirations were brutally crushed in acts of unimaginable repression - creating a vivid, dynamic and often painful picture of this totalitarian state during the forty years of Hoxha's ruthless dictatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery little emerged from Albania during communist times. With these personal accounts, Rejmer opens a window onto a terrifying period in the country's history. \u003ci\u003eMud Sweeter than Honey\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a gripping work of reportage, but also a necessary and unique portrait of a nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Tony Barber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Polityka Passport Prize**Winner of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKoscielski Award\u003c\/b\u003e*\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones and Antonia Lloyd-Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56438551085430,"sku":"9781529411478","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27644476.jpg?v=1760364439","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529411478-mud-sweeter-than-honey","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}