Winter in Tirane: The Stories of Jiri Kajane by Jiri Kajane

Winter in Tirane: The Stories of Jiri Kajane, brings together for the first time twelve intertwined tales of bittersweet love, absurd politics, and comic hijinks by the enigmatic Jiri Kajane...an exploration of the meaning of identity, the power of suggestion, and the complex relationship between a story and its creator.

"What I remember now is their laconic strangeness...a new and mysterious voice." Ian Jack, The Guardian



“Endearing, gently humorous.”

Professor Sue Vice, author of Textual Deceptions: False Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era, quoted in The Independent



Winter in Tirane: The Stories of Jiri Kajane, brings together for the first time twelve intertwined tales of bittersweet love, absurd politics, and comic hijinks by the enigmatic Jiri Kajane. Set against the final days of the Albanian empire, the stories follow an unnamed narrator–the Deputy Minister of Slogans–and his young friend Leni as they attempt to navigate a landscape of shifting political alliances and unsettling personal affairs. By turns funny, profound, and moving, Winter in Tirane is an exploration of the meaning of identity, the power of suggestion, and the complex relationship between a story and its creator.

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About Jiri Kajane

Time Out Scotland named Jiri Kajane "the second greatest living Albanian writer," after Ismail Kdare. But who exactly is Jiri Kajane, and why has no one in the literary world ever actually met him? Why has he never been photographed?



According to some accounts, Kajane was raised in Kruje, Albania. His satirical drama, Neser Perdite (Tomorrow, Every Day), is rumored to have received great acclaim in a singular 1981 performance before being banned by the Albanian Ministry of Culture. Due to Kajane’s precarious standing before the revolution, his work has never been published in his home country.

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Complete Child by Sharon Creal

A collection of literary short fiction, Complete Child looks at a variety of contemporary urbanites who find sometimes the only way past a baffling situation is through it.

In this fiction collection by Sharon Creal, contemporary urbanites explore baffling situations and find even more surprising truths: a mother realizes her son is intimately acquainted with a friend’s death; a woman leaves her perfectly adequate husband for a woman baker who keeps disappearing; a couple arrives at their country house expecting only to grieve by skating; a heavy drinker makes plans; and a photo archivist discovers an apparently perfect man in Florida who turns out to be her New York City neighbor. Set in New York and Los Angeles, these stories feature a variety of strangers – straight, lesbian, married, single, men, women – who might live close enough to jostle each other, deciding where next to step.

About Sharon Creal

Sharon Creal lives in Los Angeles, in the port town of San Pedro. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City and her BA in English came from Drew University, home of the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Sharon is working on other stories, a novella, and a poetry collection. The short story collection "Complete Child" is her first Smashwords publication.

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Rivals at school and rivals in love, Kerem and Nozam take opposing paths during the war of liberation that ignites their country. When Kerem returns from exile, Sanomi, the love of his youth, leaves Nozam for Kerem and together they witness Nozam's disintegration and the betrayal of a nation’s dreams.

About Brian H Jones

Brian has variously been described as a curmudgeon, a reprobate, a humbug, and a scurrilous hypocrite. Those are descriptions that his friends apply to him. And his enemies? Well, with such lexically accomplished friends, who needs enemies?



For further insights into Brian's character, it may be noted that when his adorable wife, Marie (author of 'Dangerous Journey'), is being especially adorable, Brian can be suffused with almost searing flashes of optimism and then believes that life holds more than political prevarication, financial failures, moral mendacity and spiritual spuriousness. Sometimes he even thinks that writing is one of life's more elevated activities. And then, sometimes, he doesn't..!

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About Tom Lichtenberg

"Author of curiously engaging novellas. His stories are not driven by action but by mood and metaphysics. His premises often begin with fairly standard, often vaguely science-fiction concepts, but he spins those concepts out into melancholy, thoughtful tales in which he explores the emotion and (often) dislocation that people feel when confronted by something outside their normal experience." - Devon Kappa

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