In Their Footsteps Qafa Family: Three Hundred Years of War

For over three-hundred years, the Qafa
family name has been synonymous with
fighting for Albanian independence.
Since the 1600's, Qafa men have lost their
lives and taken lives fighting against the
Ottoman Turks, the Yugoslavian Serbs,
and the communists. Simon Qafa tells
the story of Pjeter Cup Qafa, his father
who was known as "the legend of the
mountains" for his role as one of the most
important freedom fighters of his day.
Simon's life is chronicled here with a roller
coaster journey from his childhood in
Albania and Kosovo, the seminary in Rome,
prison in New York, and as a family man
and active advocate against communism

Louis Romano entered the literary world at age
58. Romano has published twenty novels. His
best-selling book BESA has been translated into
Albanian. INTERCESSION and CARUSI: The
Shame of Sicily are among his best known work.