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Fatos Kongoli. Dragoi i fildishte. Tirana, Albania. ;abej. 1999. 192 pages. 590 ALL. ISBN 99927-33-12-8.
. Le dragon d'ivoire. Edmond Tupja, tr. Paris. Rivages. 2000 (c1999). 257 pages. 129 F. ISBN 2-7436-0652-5.
"THE IVORY DRAGON" is the third novel of a tetralogy by the Albanian writer Fatos Kongoli. It focuses primarily on the life of an Albanian student in China in the 1960s.
The Sino-Albanian alliance of 1961-78 may in retrospect be regarded as one of the most curious political alliances of the twentieth century, the marriage of the elephant and the mouse. The political leadership of Stalinist Albania broke with the Warsaw Pact in 1961, accusing the rest of Eastern Europe of revisionism. Bereft of friends and allies in Europe...