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"Broken April" is an English equivalent of "Een breuk in april."
Both the Dutch and the English phrases are translations of the title to a novel by Albanian author and poet Ismail Kadare (b. January 28, 1936). The novel tells the tragic story of a young man, Gyorg Berisha, who is forced to kill as part of a 40-year-old blood feud between his family and that of the perceived enemy. In turn, Berisha will be killed within the next 30 days.
During those last days, his path keeps crossing that of a beautiful young woman, Diana, who is honeymooning in the area with her older husband. The chance meetings are particularly poignant in emphasizing all that Berisha loses with his life. Among other tragedies, he leaves behind no beautiful young wife or children to mourn, memorialize or avenge him.
In fact, the cycle of violence ends with Berisha's death. Specifically, nobody will be left of Berisha's family to avenge him. In essense, Berisha's murderer will be the first murderous participant in that longstanding blood feud to walk away unpunished from his ritualized crime.
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