Ismail Kadare

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Three Elegies For Kosovo

Ismail Kadare

Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century.

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Chronicle in Stone

Ismail Kadare

In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare’s young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town are lost foever in the madness and brutality…

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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Ismail Kadare

From behind the closed door, the man shouts, ‘Be on your way - you have no business here!’ ‘Open up, I am the messenger of Death’. As spring arrives in…

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General Of The Dead Army

Ismail Kadare

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…

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The Accident

Ismail Kadare

In Vienna a taxi strikes the crash barrier, flinging its passengers out as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; only that the couple…

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The Siege

Ismail Kadare

The Ottoman Army lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be…

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The Palace Of Dreams

Ismail Kadare

Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni At the heart of the Sultan’s vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams.

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Broken April

Ismail Kadare

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…

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The Ghost Rider

Ismail Kadare

A classic medieval mystery from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker Prize

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The Successor

Ismail Kadare

The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14. Did he kill himself or was he murdered?

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The File on H

Ismail Kadare

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a ‘new fangled’ invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.

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