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A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare; John Hodgson (Translator)
Category: Fiction
The Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the Year Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin passed ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
Category: FICTION
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in quest ...Show more
Agamemnon's Daughter : A novella and stories by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten. In his compelling prequel to "The Successor", Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. Published here in English for the first time, the spellbindin ...Show more
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
‘By any standard this is a considerable novel’ Sunday Telegraph From the moment that Gjorg’s brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit- for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother’s murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother’s killer, young Gjorg is ...Show more
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
Gjorg is a young mountaineer who (much against his will) has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in accordance with the Code that regulates life in the Albanian highlands. A young couple on their honeymoon has come to this place to st ...Show more
Broken April by Ismail Kadare; David M. Bellos (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the mont ...Show more
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
The story of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world. 'Where are we going, where are they taking us?'WWII is about to start, but life for a young boy in a small town in Albania is still a game. Yet, as the country falls to the Italians, then the Greeks, then eventually t ...Show more
Essays on World Literature : Aeschylus, Dante, Shakespeare by Ismail Kadare (trans. Ani Kokobobo)
Category: Culture
Description: The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature - Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare - through the lens of resisting totalitarianism. Revi ...Show more
Fall Of The Stone City by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. It is the first step in a carefully planned invasion. But once at the mouth of the city, the troops are taken aback by a surprising act of rebellion that leaves the citizens fearful of a bloody counter-attack. Soon ...Show more
General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
Category: unmapped
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exace ...Show more