Short Story Summary

The short story The Albanian Virgin begins in the mountains in a town called Matsia e madhe. The reader is introduced to a woman named "Lottar". The woman's name is in parenthesis because her true name is not revealed just yet. It is assumed that the people of Matsia e madhe have not been able to pronounce her real name and decided just to call her Lottar.

Lottar has a fever and a wound on her leg from when she fell onto rocks after her guide was shot. The people have carried her up the mountain strapped to a horse's back while she is bound up in a rug. She is given water a few times a day and sometimes some brandy. She finds herself on a lake and later in a hut for the sick and dying.

She remains in...