One afternoon, Bashkim Spahia, a local doctor and former Party member turned opposition candidate, knocked on our door, visibly agitated. He was wearing a charcoal-grey jacket cut in the style favoured by Leonid Brezhnev; under it he had on a purple T-shirt with pink writing across in the middle, above matching purple trousers. The writing was in English. It read: “Sweet dreams, my lovely friends.” Bashkim asked if my father owned any grey socks he could borrow for a few months. He had been knocking on every door, he said. He explained that for the election campaign, the U.S. State Department
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