Ismail Kadare
Three Elegies For Kosovo
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history
28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ... Buy or find out more →
Chronicle In Stone
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The story of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world "Where are we going, where are they taking us?" The Second World War is about to start, but life for a young boy in a small town in Al... Buy or find out more →
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A masterpiece of economy, humour, and mythology - an indelible picture of the imagination freed from communistic glaciers.
As Spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Ba... Buy or find out more →
General Of The Dead Army
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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.
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is desp... Buy or find out more →
The Accident
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
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 cont... Buy or find out more →
Siege
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
In the battle for faith, is it liberation, or invasion?
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 loo... Buy or find out more →
Palace Of Dreams
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 by Barbara Br... Buy or find out more →
Broken April
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
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 Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albani... Buy or find out more →
The Ghost Rider
$23.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious r... Buy or find out more →
The Successor
$23.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
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, by an author the Wall Street Journal called 'one of the most compell... Buy or find out more →
The File On H
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages. What better place in which two Irish-American scholars might study the tradition of oral poetry, in the hope of understanding how the ... Buy or find out more →
Three Elegies For Kosovo
$23.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
On 28 June, 1389, a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. The battle was over in ten hours. But ever since, the birds of prey have been hovering above the bat... Buy or find out more →
Three Arched Bridge
$37.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
In the 14th century a bridge was built across a great river in the Balkans known as the Wicked Waters. There was no end to the making of the bridge until a mason was bricked up in it as a propitiatory sacrifice. Only the... Buy or find out more →
Pyramid
$39.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
How could the nation be kept under control unless they were all enslaved to a common enterprise? Peace and plenty would only start giving people ideas: they must be constantly kept under the whip. Cheops found the argume... Buy or find out more →
General Of The Dead Army
$0.00 – Paperback book / Harvill
This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare’s first
novel.
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is dispatched to Albania to recover his country’s dead. Once there he meets a Ger... Buy or find out more →
Broken April
$27.95 – Paperback book / Newams
Two destinies intersect in this novel -- that of Gjorg, a young mountaineer who has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the code of th... Buy or find out more →