Tri tavernat

The Three Taverns is a darkly humorous and surreal novel set in the waning days of Albanian communism, in the late 1980s. In a crumbling regime desperate to survive, even the most bizarre efforts are made to keep the illusion alive. In a remote and forgotten village, a legendary treasure—rumored to have been lost in a medieval battle led by Gjorg Golemi, a Lord of Arbër—is suddenly unearthed. What follows is a feverish and grotesque adventure fueled by greed, ignorance, and blind hope. As the villagers are swept up in dreams of glory and salvation, reality begins to blur with farce. Characters slip in and out of roles, surreal scenes unfold with both absurdity and poignancy, and humor intertwines with despair. Told with sharp wit and vivid imagination, The Three Taverns is a story about the dangerous comfort of familiar evils—and the absurd lengths people will go to preserve them. A richly layered satire, this novel offers a tragicomic portrait of a society on the brink of collapse, and the illusions that persist even in its ashes.