The AlbanianThe Albanian, winner of the 2005 T. A. G. Hungerford Award for Fiction, tells the story of Rosa, a young woman from a small country town in Australia. Longing for mystery, adventure, and the exotic, she is fatally attracted to a romantic image of Eastern Europe. Rosa finds herself alone in Dubrovnik in the months before the implosion of the old Yugoslavia, unaware of the political turmoil. She becomes dangerously involved with a young Albanian on his