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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
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: Classics
‘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
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: Non-Fiction
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
The Doll by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, Guardian Young Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naïve and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's imposing house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon. Yet despite her youthful nature, she is not withou ...Show more
The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
Category: Classics
At the heart of the Sultan's vast but fragile empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams: the most secret and powerful Ministry ever invented. Its task is to scour every town, village and hamlet to collect the citizens' dreams, then to sift, sort and classify them, and ultimately to interpret them, i ...Show more
The Siege by Ismail Kadare
Category: Fiction
The Ottoman Army - the most powerful the world had known by that time - 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 overcome. Told partly through the personal narrative of one of the defenders, partly th ...Show more