"Historia e gruas së fotografit” është emri me të cilin e njohin të gjithë, ato pak herë që e përdorin, por, në të vërtetë, ajo është edhe historia e vetë fotografit, ose më saktë, është historia e teorisë së tij mbi rëndësinë e gjërave të vogla.
Përrallat e treguara nga Mitrush Kuteli përbëjnë pjesën më të rëndësishme të letërsisë shqiptare, një frymëzim për një numër të madh veprash të tjera letrare që pasuan përgjatë dekadave. Tregime të Moçme Shqiptare përbën një klasik të të gjitha kohërave.
Për shumë vite me radhë Enver Hoxha i imponoi historisë versionin e tij. Ai rezulton i paturpshëm për t'i transformuar ngjarjet, për t'i fshirë ose zhdukur personazhet dhe për të ngritur në histori një protagonist të vetëm: atë vetë.
Duke lexuar "Prillin e thyer" kuptohet lehtësisht përse dhe me çfarë force Ismail Kadare është pasionuar për tragjedinë dhe për dy përfaqësuesit më të shquar të saj, Shekspirin dhe Eskilin. "Miku, besa dhe gjakmarrja janë rrotat e mekanizmit të tragjedisë antike, dhe të futesh në mekanizmin e tyre është të shikosh mundësinë e tragjedisë."
Meriyll, a 13 - year old girl, after the death of her mother get the responsibilities of keeping the house. She has to take care also for her younger brother and sister while her father has problem with alcohol.
During a underwater teaching practice the classmates of a grammar school are kidnapped by a submarine and taken hostage in a secret military base. This military base is constructed by a dictatorial state to undertake within e short time an aggression towards some democratic countries.
This book is a continuation of the "Seeking happiness". Spartak one of the main characters of the novel Seeking happiness decides to find his mother who is living in Greece after a forced marriage with an unknown person who results a criminal and drug-dealer.
This novel is dedicated to foreign women who married Albanian men and lived in Albania during XX century often in harsh conditions, suffering persecution, deportation in remote places and imprisonment.
The book was published in 2002 and won the Silver Pen a prize of the Ministry of Culture. The relations of parents with their son and his close friend, a dog called Julius Caesar are a serious problem in an healthy Albanian.
A 14-year-old boy and his sister are victims of a harsh politically verdict towards their father during the communist regime in Albania. Together with their mother they are deported in a remote village. The mother is constrained to do hard work in the fields and they live in detestable conditions.
Two children, brother and sister, whose father is dead and mother recovered in a psychiatric hospital, are victims of the fate and the frauds that their uncle and his wife carried to sent them in a public orphanage and reclaim with ilegal means the house where the children were living.
A group of Albanian children bored from the life in their country decide to seek happiness abroad, in the West and escape from home. Hiding nder an Italian military vehicle they embarked in a ferry-boat and arrived in Italy where experience many sufferings and adventures to understand in the end of their odyssey that there is no happiness waiting for them.
A young pianist experienced his first love in a turbulent way without understanding at first that is huge diference between sex and romantic love. His relationship with a coaetan girl passes through a hard period. Another girl enters between them in a impudently way trying to conquer the boyfriend of her classmate.
The book is an autobiographical novel dealing mainly with the early years of the autor and his adolescence. Through the eyes of a child the author give a panorama of the life under the dictatorship in late '60 and the beginnings of the '70, the most fierce and ruthless period of Albanian life under communist regime.