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Albania: once a battlefield, now a charnel-house. And yet, life goes on . . .This sweeping epic of post ...
Albania's best-known novelist and poet and one of Europe's great living writers, he bears comparison ...
Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in the Albanian mountain town of Girokaster near the Greek border. He is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. He established an uneasy modus vivendi with the Communist authorities until their attempts to turn his reputation to their advantage drove him in October 1990 to seek asylum in France.
In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history
'By any standard this is a considerable novel' Sunday Telegraph
A novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own, Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny and oppression was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981.Translated ...
Albania: once a battlefield, now a charnel-house. And yet, life goes on . . .This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare's first novel.
A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past.
A story of a country attempting to reconcile its new freedom with old rituals, secrets and betrayals
Albania's best-known novelist and poet and one of Europe's great living writers, he bears comparison to Gogal, Kafka and Orwell
All Kadare's novels serve as parables and this one is a wry and hard-hitting commentary on the conflicts that seem destined forever to ravage the Balkan states.Translated from the Albanian by John Hod ...