Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages. Here two Irish-American scholars study the tradition of oral poetry, to elucidate the strange commerce between memory and forgetting. They realize only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest. This is a...

Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages. Here two Irish-American scholars study the tradition of oral poetry, to elucidate the strange commerce between memory and forgetting. They realize only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest. This is a tale on Albania by one of its gifted novelist.