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Wood, J. (2012). Ismail Kadare. In Wood, J. The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 290-306

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[...] "Which do you love more, your family or Albania?" Albania, of course, I told him. A family you can make overnight. You walk out of a coffee house, run into a woman on the corner, take her to a hotel, and boom--wife and children. But you can't make Albania overnight after a quick drink in a coffee house, can you? No, not in one night, and not in a thousand and one nights, either'. . .

I like this a lot for some reason

—p.296 by James Wood 9 years, 1 month ago

[...] "Which do you love more, your family or Albania?" Albania, of course, I told him. A family you can make overnight. You walk out of a coffee house, run into a woman on the corner, take her to a hotel, and boom--wife and children. But you can't make Albania overnight after a quick drink in a coffee house, can you? No, not in one night, and not in a thousand and one nights, either'. . .

I like this a lot for some reason

—p.296 by James Wood 9 years, 1 month ago