Like a Prisoner David Gardiner Written in the form of

Written in the form of a personal diary

by implication

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Like a Prisoner David Gardiner Written in the form ofThe book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and generally survive, all in different ways. They may conform, rebel, construct alternative realities of the imagination, cultivate hope, cling to memories of lost love, or devisenincreasingly strange and surreal strategies of resistance. The characters