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Karen
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Luan Starova wrote this biography of his father (the beginning of a 10 volume Balkan saga) in Macedonia. Starova, born in Albania in 1941 moved with his family across a lake to Macedonia, when Albania was locked down in fascism. In this short book, we see the love of language, literature, homeland and family. Starova's father collects a huge library of books on the Ottoman empire and family histories.

After reading several books by Albanian author Ismail Kadare and working my way through a book o
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