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“ismail kadare”

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  • Chronicle in Stone

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZESet just before and during the Second World War, Chronicle in Stone is a tale told by an imaginative young boy whose magical view of life tempers the tragedies that befall his family and neighbours as their city is battered by wave upon wave of occupying forces: first the Italians, then the Greeks, and finally the Germans. The joys and horrors of the modern ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Ghost Rider

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    "Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness." —Los Angeles TimesAn old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Succesor

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another’s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Agamemnon's Daughter

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.The partner to The Successor, Agamemnon's Daughter is an impeccably crafted, psychologically incisive tale of a disappointed lover's odyssey ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Doll

    A Portrait of My Mother

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom.“Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible.”In his father’s great stone house ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Traitor's Niche

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    "Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality." —The New YorkerAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Elegy for Kosovo

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    June 28, 1389: Six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for the repression of the Albanian majority in Kosovo, there took place, on the Field of the Blackbirds, a battle shrouded in legend. A coalition of Serbs, Albanian Catholics, Bosnians, and Romanians confronted and were defeated by the invading Ottoman army of the Sultan Murad. This battle established the Muslim ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Accident

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    The new book from the winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize is a modern-day love story of powerful obsession set against the background of dark political intrigue.On the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Successor

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    A new novel from the acclaimed winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction.The Successor is a powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.The man who died was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. The world was so certain that he was next ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Siege

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize – a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Márquez, and Rushdie – the stunning new translation of one of his major works.In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Essays on World Literature

    Aeschylus • Dante • Shakespeare

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by Ani Kokobobo ...
    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.In isolationist Albania, which suffered under a Communist dictatorship for nearly half a century, classic global ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD