Description
Fiction. Drama. One morning in the 1990s in Kosovo, the Albanian population of Gjakova find their front doors marked with a white cross. Fearful for their lives, the Albanians in one neighbourhood hide their women and children inside a basement. In a few days, however, Serbian forces wearing wolf masks arrive accompanied by tanks, demolishing houses and killing people. The occupants of the basement are found and shot down in cold blood. Ten-year-old Ermal, shielded by his dead mother, remains alive. So does his father Adem. But his three sisters are also dead. Days later all traces of the killings are erased. Eight years later, as a young man living with his father in Mississauga, Ontario, Ermal is still haunted by those events. And he dreams of revenge.
Author Bio
Përparim Kapllani was born in Elbasan, Albania. He joined military school before going on to study literature and Albanian at the University of Tirana. In Albania he wrote drama and worked as a journalist. He came to Canada in 2000 and began to put to paper his many untold stories. Struggling to find a job, he worked in several pizza parlours in Toronto, where he lives now, before finally opening his own. English is not his first language, but this didn't stop him from realizing his dream: becoming an English author in Canada.
Author City: TORONTO, ON CAN