Review: The Albanian Affairs by Susana Fortes

Today in January Magazine’s fiction section, contributing editor Pedro Blas Gonzalez reviews The Albanaian Affairs, the first English translation for Susan Fortes:

Novels set in totalitarian countries always possess a closed-room, double morality ethos that few people in open societies can begin to imagine. These works depict a bare bones realism that more often than not is nothing less than a test of survival.

According to Gonzalez, this runner-up for the Planeta Award for Fiction does not except that rule. You can read the entire review here.