A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.
Ismail Kadare
A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.
Ismail Kadare
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical. -The Wall Street Journal
Ismail Kadare’s readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him… . A Girl in Exile, published in Albanian in 2009, may rekindle the worldwide hopes. -The New York Times Book Review
During the bureaucratic machinery of Albania’s 1945-1991 dictatorship, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl-Linda B.-has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession.
He soon learns that Linda’s family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B.
At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare’s novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti-individualist system. -The Washington Post
A Girl in Exile confirms Kadare to be the best writer at work today who remembers-almost aggressively so, refusing to forget-European totalitarianism. -The New Republic
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