"Tales of Communism", Anita Likmeta succeeds in "Amazon Italia" with her first novel

The novel is sparking a lot of discussion in Italy and showing how things really went during communism and the civil war in Albania.

It's a Mosquito Bite

"Albania for a very long time has been shown, outside and inside it, by people who no longer loved it.
But now the time has arrived for Anita Likmeta's "Le favole del comunismo" that shows us the other side of L'America.
From where everything started."

This is how famous Italian filmmaker and intellectual Gianni Amelio expresses the Albanian-Italian author with eyes written by Durres, Anita Likmeta.

Le favole del comunismo is her first novel published by Marsilio Editori and as director Gianni Amelio puts it, it is an act of deep love, because it shows how things really went.
"And it says it through the eyes of a child, author Anita Likmeta," Amelio said.

Anita Likumeta's novel, which has just been released in advance, is quickly rising up the Amazon Italia sales charts.

What is Roman talking about?

"The Eagles' Country Tales tell of donkeys, apple trees, action to save a crazy girl with a horsetail, and of leaf that, once planted, can make it begin to grow not only strawberries and seeds, but also houses.
The Eagles are the happiest there is. Although there is no running water, even though there are more bunkers than cows, although Ari's mother left it to her grandparents because she became pregnant too young to work, although when the Berlin Wall comes down there is no immediate end to dictatorship: in Albania of eagles there is only chaos and murder and people with their faces covered. Of course, when the Berlin Wall falls, many people leave for Italy, towards the other side of Albania of the Eagles, which is the happiest of all.
But Gold and the grandparents didn't set off, they lag behind. The grandparents feel too old to leave, and that's when Ari expects the mother - removed on the ship that everyone else has taken - to come back to get him.
There are two Aris in this novel: one is the girl who lives in Albania in the 80s and 90s, and is shoeless, because shoes should not be worn and therefore she walks barefoot; The other is a young woman who has lots of shoes, just like she has running water, and today lives in the centre of Milan, in an elegant apartment, spending hours under the shower because biological shampoos don't make enough foam. The two are alike, a little because they are beautiful and beauty is the same, a little because they are the same Gold.

Anita Likmeta, gently and ironically, joyfully and ruthlessly, writes a monumental novel and tells us a childhood where, at times, peeing under yourself was the only way to warm ourselves.

Anita Likmeta is a writer and entrepreneur born in Durres, Albania, during the communist regime of Enver Hoxha, a naturalized Italian.
After arriving in Italy following the civil war in 1997, she received her high school diploma for classical languages and then was laureated in Literature and Philosophy.

She has been praised in 2021 as one of the Inspiring 50 women in Europe for innovation according to Corriere della Sera. From 2020 to 2023, she has been Ambassador for Connect Albania for IOM - UN Migration. She also ran for office in the Italian political elections in the liberal progressive area.