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Live to Tell: A True Story of Religious Persecution in Communist Albania | 
 enlarge | Author: Fr. Zef Pllumi
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1182740
Media: Paperback
Pages: 296
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0595452981
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780595452989
ASIN: 0595452981
Publication Date: March 26, 2008
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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.
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A modern-day Epic - Live and Learn August 27, 2008
Nick Leshai
Nothing short of an Epic.
In one of his speeches Father Pllumi compared the communist society to Dante's "Inferno". I have read "Live to Tell" in original and the author does a great job describing the Inferno of "the Comrades".
"Live to Tell" is an original work that reads like fiction but is as real as it can be. If you ever wanted to know how intellectuals, artists, and clergy suffered under the materialism-driven communists, you cannot find a better account of it. And Father Pllumi knows it. He spent nearly three decades in Communist Labor Camps only because he refused to renounce his religion.
In the end, Father Pllumi not only "Lived to Tell", but "Lived to Forgive" too, because he was above all a Great Man.
Following Father Sirdani's advise to the, then young, Fra Pllumi "To Live Only to Tell", I recommend this book for anyone who wants to "Live and Learn".
Thanks
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