The sixth book by journalist Xhovan Shyti on the shelves of the capital's bookstores

2023-11-06 19:27:00, Kulturë CNA

The sixth book by journalist Xhovan Shyti on the shelves of the capital's

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"Escape from the East to the West - In search of paradise" is the sixth book by its author, journalist Xhovan Shyti, who once again surprises with the topic covered, focusing on refugees.

This "century-old wound, which unfortunately continues to be present, even with increased intensity, even in the 21st century of humanity drowned by the thirst for money", as the author says at the top of the publication.

"Poor refugees! They resemble those migratory birds that wander from one place to another, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, struggling to stay alive, pursued by all kinds of hunters...", reads the introduction. of the book, serving as a guide to everything will be elaborated on the following pages.

Consisting of two parts distant in terms of time, but sharing the theme and the idea of ??escaping from the East to the West in search of paradise, the book comes as a novelty in the world of Albanian literary creativity, enriching it in a worthy way. All the more it comes as a desirable and welcome value considering the disillusioning invasion of scribblers that has flooded this world.

The theme of "Escape from the East to the West - In search of paradise" is the trend not only of Albanians, who, even today after three decades, in not having the courage to stay and contribute to bring here the heavenly magic of the West, continue to have abandonment as an alternative of the mother earth, but it is also the phenomenon of other peoples of the East.

The sixth book by journalist Xhovan Shyti on the shelves of the capital's

Not only of the former communist East, whose wall the West demolished thirty years ago, leaving the waste uncleaned, but also of other Easts. Asian, African, Oriental, etc. births put to an end by the satraps of the powers...", reads the preface of the book.

The cohesion of refugeeism, as an alternative of salvation from the eastern hell to the western paradise, makes the undertaking of the author Shyti even more sensitive, who, in a confident pronouncement, affirms that he did not choose the current time of the book's publication by chance.

"It's been a while since I finished the bulk of the book text. I kept it in my archive of finished works without exactly planning its publication.

The events, especially those of the last ten years, which turned out to be explosive in the phenomenon of escape to the west, encouraged me not to postpone the publication any further", the author continues to explain, who further says that "the first book", as he calls it, it deals with lived events.

Which come served in the form of a refugee's diary, where they describe in more detail what is hidden behind the pink curtain of the capitalist "paradise". Meanwhile, in the second part of the book, the tragedy increases its dimension by raising the human pain to a crescendo.

Stories, events, statistics, analysis, comments, characters who confess the pain experienced, black chronicles and...

The tragedy of the "Katri te Rada", the fishing trawler that, after being hit by the Italian navy ship "Sibila", sank to the bottom of the cold waters of the sea 83 Albanians, including babies, children, women, men, killing even entire families the author brought as a tribute to all the victims of world refugeeism, the phenomenon that, with the dream of touching the western "paradise", is emptying the territories of the eastern populations, turning into a global virus.

The form of the composition, the wonderful Albanian language, with which the surprising subject is conveyed, add more value to the sixth edition of the Shyti journalist./ CNA