Dhunë e dhunti – Of Gifts and Violence

Botime Pegi, 2017

There must have been a crime in the house on Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles. There could have been. The wife could have done it. This doubt haunts the philosophy professor Miljan Toska, the twin brother of the dead man. Arriving in Los Angeles for the reading of his brother’s testament, Toska revisits the house where the alleged crime occurred and, where years ago, he fell for Tesa, his brother’s wife, now widow. The scramble for truth sends the living on a backward journey that must traverse their past as migrants from a little speck of land named Albania to the turbid New World of the United States.