Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania [first edition]

London. MacLehose Press/Quercus Publishing. 2021. Hard Cover. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Royal 8vo 10" x 6¼ " [25.4cm x 15.8cm] approx. 310 pp. Black boards with silver titles to the spine panel. Book is fine with pristine text block and tight, square binding. Translated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones and Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Introduction by Tony Barber. Unclipped dust wrapper which is also fine. Artwork by Andrew Smith. After breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism. Every day, many of its citizens were thrown into prisons and forced labour camps for daring to think independently, for rebelling against the regime or trying to escape. This book gives voice to those who lived in Albania at that time from poets and teachers to shoe-makers and peasant farmers, and many others creating a vivid, dynamic and often painful picture of this totalitarian state during the forty years of Hoxhas ruthless dictatorship. Very little emerged from Albania during communist times. With these personal accounts, Rejmer opens a window onto a terrifying period in the countrys history. 'Mud Sweeter than Honey' is not only a gripping work of reportage, but also a necessary and unique portrait of a nation. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival quality acetate sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.