Like a Prisoner David Gardiner only the mountains and rivers

only the mountains and rivers remain

by implication

Radwa Ashour was awarded the Constantine Cavafy International Prize for Literature

and is also an award-winning film

Their words

Like a Prisoner David Gardiner only the mountains and riversThe book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and generally survive, all in different ways. They may conform, rebel, construct alternative realities of the imagination, cultivate hope, cling to memories of lost love, or devisenincreasingly strange and surreal strategies of resistance. The characters