![]() ![]() The Ghegs never meant to be burdened with this Canadian woman, but her horse gets spooked and she gets injured. While she was out on a guided tour of the olive trees, they killed her guide (the guide had killed someone from their group some time before, and he would, in turn, be avenged later). When she says it to the Ghegs, they don’t quite understand and call her Lotar. ![]() We never know the real name of this woman. ![]() We step back into Albania in the 1920s to meet a Canadian woman who will be the Albanian virgin. The story begins with this story-within-the-story. The themes and structure may be complex, but reading it is far from a chore. Such is the complexity of Munro’s later work. Indeed, she’s the fictional character in a story being told to our narrator by another woman. And, we learn after her introduction, she is actually a fictional character in a story within the story. At one point, she assumes the role of an Albanian man. The title character in Munro’s “The Albanian Virgin” is neither Albanian nor a virgin. ![]()
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