For those interested in pursuing Zog in what appears to be a
Nabokovian setting:
Lloyd
Jones' Biografi is a literary travelogue of a nightmarish Albania, but
you have to refer to other sources to determine that its main character (a
dentist whose own life was stolen so he could serve as body double for dictator
Enver Hoxha) is fictional. Although the travel genre is one in which
subjectivity and the occasional tall tale are considered legit, Jones'
publishers probably should have labeled this a novel. As such it raises more
questions about its bizarre subjects - King Zog, the totalitarian's
totalitarian Hoxha and post-meltdown Albania - than it answers.