The Circles of Hell by Kripa, Reshat

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Events in Reshat Kripa’s book, The Circles of Hell, take place within the ferocious years of the communist regime in Albania. The author has gathered scores of instances of cruelty and deceit within these pages. Fiction allows this when the country and era to be represented were truly inhumane. This work symbolizes not a particular story, as it happens, but a special concentrate of true stories. In fact, the quite unjustified arrest was planned by the police simply to enhance shock and to pressure the relatives of the victim. In the end, the rape illustrates the depravity and arbitrariness that officials permitted themselves.