Live to Tell: V.1 1944-1951 A True Story of Religious Persecution in Communist Albania - Couverture souple

Pllumi, Fr. Zef

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0595452981 ISBN 13 : 9780595452989

Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Pllumi Fr Zef

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1944, Albania erupted in civil war. The communist party prevailed and acted quickly and brutally. By 1946, through executions, imprisonments, and mass banishments, the communists broke the back of Albania's freedom. A young Franciscan Catholic and man of heroic character in this time of inhumanity, Friar Zef Pllumi was arrested, brutally tortured, imprisoned, and sent to labor camps. Through deeply personal descriptions of shocking atrocities, Fr. Pllumi focuses on his extraordinary will to survive and his powerful faith. His intense desire to "live to tell" honors those martyred with Christ's name on their lips. Fr. Pllumi was initially released in 1949. Fr. Pllumi's memories are a brave confrontation of communism. His story's power lays in the fact that despite obscene efforts, the communist party could not succeed. As Fr. Pllumi states, "They think people are frightened before dying, but what they don't realize is that when you've arrived to a certain agonizing point, nothing is frightening anymore." Fr. Pllumi's historical memoir also delivers clear lessons for today. Amid the many horrors, differences in beliefs melted away. Christians, Muslims, Albanians, Italians, and French alike, although wounded physically, emotionally, and spiritually, were still alive to help each other and stand together and triumph for mankind.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Fr. Zef Pllumi (1924?2007) was born in Lezha, Albania. His youth was spent in the Franciscan schools and the monastery of Shkodra. After the war, he was persecuted and imprisoned under the Hoxha communist regime. He wrote his story in 3 volumes, prior to his passing.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0595452981
• ISBN 13: 9780595452989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296