Anthology of wounds - Arct

Marie GjokaAnthology of WoundsThere is a popular phrase: “OhGod, how much the man bears”and concretized this meaning cannot better be found than in the lifeof a noble and suffering womannamed Marie Gjoka (Mazreku).Her problems in her life and herheart increased day after day.It was a poor family as manyother families in our poor Albania.Her father died when she was too young and her motherdid what she could to raise up her six children. One of thesisters got married, the other one was adopted by acouple. One of her brothers became priest, the other,Rroku became master carpenter. Don Nikolli was as thehead of the family. It was that man Nikë Barcolla {in factthis is his nickname}that would made that famous polemicwith Father Fulvio Cordignano, which even that hadworked hard for Albanian culture, was expressed verybadly for Albanian people in a newspaper publication.After some times Don Nikolli (the parson) was transferredfrom Tirana to Kryezi of Puka. His mother, Rroku and hissister Maria joined him. It was a very cold and rainy winterday in a very far place…It was the begging of the tragedy. It was a citizenShkodra family in a far way mountainous area, where therewas no electricity, no water, in a poor village of Puka, thesame scene as described in Migjeni books. It was theyear 1944…the dictatorship has just began to feel evenin those high mountains. The news was terrible. The first174