A reading marathon activity took place today at the Centre for Openness and Dialogue (COD), the art gallery on the first floor of the government building in Tirana, to celebrate the World Book Day and to further promote reading in Albania, an event featuring the country’s prominent people for their achievements in arts and sports. The reading marathon was opened by the Prime Minister Edi Rama, who read loudly excerpts from Ismail Kadare’s book “Mornings at Café Rostand.”

“I believe it is a book worth reading. It is not the kind of Kadare’s highly allegorical books that would require an almost special commitment to reading from beginning to end, yet it is a collection of essays and other autobiographical notes on certain non-related moments, but which give you a special pleasure in being a book reader in their entirety,” PM Rama said in his remarks, inviting young people to read this book.

Mornings at Café Rostand (Alb. Mëngjeset në Kafe Rostand) is a collection of essays and autobiographical notes by Ismail Kadare, published in 2014.

Opening the reading marathon, PM Rama praised the book as an irreplaceable work in the process of communication despite other technological instruments that occupy an important part of the day in everybody’s life.