A review by sarahe
Accursed Mountains, The: Journeys in Albania by Robert Carver, Robert Carver

2.0

I read this a long time ago, shortly after it came out and before it seemed possible that I would ever live in Albania, and I remember it with some distaste. The picture it paints is bleak and it's widely accepted now to have been unfair even then. I don't read travel books for their accuracy and impartiality... but even so, this was rather heavy with paranoia and misery. Relentless really. I would read it again, though, if I could get it from the Inverness shed where my copy is presently buried. Hard to find otherwise. I may have to buy it from the amazing Adrion bookshop here in Tirana, where it has just appeared in the stacks. As has a lot of Murakami, alongside of course all of Kadare, in four languages. As if I had time to read anything.