the scene is ladies day during a wedding celebration in the village of boga an isolated village in the remote mountains near kosova this part of albania had been closed to the outside world for over 40 years when i arrived just after the end of the hoxha regime the marriage had taken place between albert and lena an arranged marriage between two muslim families from different villages lena is about to leave her home and go and live with her new husband and family she cries for much of the time especially as this morning her father had given her new husband the gift of a trousseau bullet
the scene is ladies day during a wedding celebration in the village of boga an isolated village in the remote mountains near kosova this part of albania had been closed to the outside world for over 40 years when i arrived just after the end of the hoxha regime the marriage had taken place between albert and lena an arranged marriage between two muslim families from different villages lena is about to leave her home and go and live with her new husband and family she cries for much of the time especially as this morning her father had given her new husband the gift of a trousseau bullet this is a traditional present given to the groom to be used only in the event of lena s desertion or infidelity
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