Based on a seemingly trivial event in recent Balkan history, this fable about the history and spirit of the Balkans highlights the dangers of ideologies and the stoicism with which the region's people have always endured tyranny. The novel's narrator is the son of exiled Albanians and he sets out to catalog his father's library. When he discovers a collection of books related to goats, he remembers the events he witnessed during his childhood shortly after his family settled in Macedonia. During that time, just after the ...
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Based on a seemingly trivial event in recent Balkan history, this fable about the history and spirit of the Balkans highlights the dangers of ideologies and the stoicism with which the region's people have always endured tyranny. The novel's narrator is the son of exiled Albanians and he sets out to catalog his father's library. When he discovers a collection of books related to goats, he remembers the events he witnessed during his childhood shortly after his family settled in Macedonia. During that time, just after the end of World War II, the new government worked tirelessly to create a great proletariat in a country that had until then been mostly rural. Shepherds were forced to move to the cities, and soon these were invaded by the goats that the shepherds refused to abandon. When the government ordered the extermination of the goats, they did not foresee the problems it would cause in the daily lives of the citizens. Basada en un episodio aparentemente trivial de la reciente historia balc???nica, esta f???bula sobre la historia y el esp???ritu de los Balcanes resalta el peligro de las ideolog???as y el estoicismo con que el pueblo de la regi???n ha soportado siempre las tiran???as. El narrador de la novela es hijo de exiliados albaneses y se dispone a catalogar la biblioteca de su padre. Al descubrir en ella una colecci???n de libros relacionados con las cabras, evoca los aco ntecimientos que presenci??? durante su ni???ez poco despu???s de que su familia se instalara en Macedonia. En aquella ???poca, justo al terminar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el nuevo r???gimen trabajaba con ah???nco para crear una gran clase proletaria en un pa???s hasta entonces rural. Los pastores fueron obligados a instalarse en las ciudades y pronto ???stas fueron invadidas por las cabras que los pastores se negaron a abandonar. Cuando las autoridades decretaron el exterminio de las cabras no se dieron cuenta de los problemas que causar???an en la vida cotidiana de los ciudadanos.
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