Novel, p. 366, Botime Pegi 2024
A family saga that transcends time and physical boundaries, a love that spans old and new eras to transform into something else, but never to be forgotten.
Marla and Marini are cousins ”sinfully” connected to each other, they leave the Albania of 1995. He turns his back on his homeland, while she doesn’t want to go away; he studies aviation in Malta, she chooses sociology on another island. Before they part, they promise that no one and nothing will diminish the love that has bound them since childhood, because they will keep it intact. Time passes, but some dreams still resemble those of two decades ago and they, now far from each other, ask themselves: “Have we kept our promise?” Their story invites you to seek the answer in two lives that unfold from adolescence to maturity, between East and West, loves and hostages.
This book conveys sparks from the spirit of the Albanian transition, recounting failures and triumphs, as they live on in two people in love, separated and connected like the letters of an epic.