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Biografi

"In 1991 Lloyd Jones, bestselling author of Mister Pip, travelled through Albania. It was six years since the death of the dictator, Enver Hoxha, but Albania was still one of the most isolated and secretive societies on the planet. Under Hoxha, all Albanian citizens had their own biografi, a file that was maintained (and often falsified) by the secret police. Jones heard rumours of a village dentist who, resembling Hoxha in looks and build, had been forced to give up his identity and undergo extensive plastic surgery to become the dictator' s double. What would it take to remove a man from his own identity and give him a new one? What kind of life would this man live now? Who would he be? In Biografi, Jones intertwines a fictional account of Petar Schapallo, the man with the fabricated identity, with a travelogue of great insight into life in Albania after the fall of Hoxhas regime."--Provided by publisher.

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  • "When Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist forced to give up his identity and become Hoxha's public double. Part travel narrative, part imaginative fiction, Biografi is an inquiry into the nature of identity."
  • "An Albanian village dentist is hired to act as the double for the country's head of state at official engagements."
  • ""In 1991 Lloyd Jones, bestselling author of Mister Pip, travelled through Albania. It was six years since the death of the dictator, Enver Hoxha, but Albania was still one of the most isolated and secretive societies on the planet. Under Hoxha, all Albanian citizens had their own biografi, a file that was maintained (and often falsified) by the secret police. Jones heard rumours of a village dentist who, resembling Hoxha in looks and build, had been forced to give up his identity and undergo extensive plastic surgery to become the dictator' s double. What would it take to remove a man from his own identity and give him a new one? What kind of life would this man live now? Who would he be? In Biografi, Jones intertwines a fictional account of Petar Schapallo, the man with the fabricated identity, with a travelogue of great insight into life in Albania after the fall of Hoxhas regime."--Provided by publisher."@en
  • ""In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely destination: Albania. What he found was a relentlessly bizarre world of half-truths and fictions, a world where your status and sometimes your life hinged on your biografi."--Publisher."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Biografi"
  • "Biografi"@en
  • "Der Mann, der Enver Hodscha war : [Roman]"
  • "Der Mann, der Enver Hodscha war"

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