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A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadara, John Hodgson (trans.)

A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers.

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The Siege

Ismail Kadare

A vivid historical novel set in the fifteenth century, by the winner of the Man Booker International 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 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 Palace of Dreams

Ismail Kadare

When it was first published in the author’s native country, THE PALACE OF DREAMS was immediately banned. The novel revolves around a secret ministry whose task is not just to…

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Agamemnon’s Daughter

Ismail Kadare

Sacrificed to further a father’s blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten.

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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 Fall of the Stone City

Ismail Kadare

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…

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Agamemnon’s Daughter

Ismail Kadare

Sacrificed to further a father’s blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten.

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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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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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The Siege

Ismail Kadare

In the early 15th century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. Brilliantly vivid, as insightful as it is compelling, The Siege is…

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Elegy for Kosovo

Ismail Kadare

One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language. Wall Street Journal

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The Three-Arched Bridge

Ismail Kadare

When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. Some say…

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The Concert

Ismail Kadare

It’s the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat…

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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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Call Him Ismail: A Postcolonial Critique of Ismail Kadare

Edona Llukacaj

This book analyzes selected works of Ismail Kadare and his presence in Albanian literature from a post-colonial theoretical perspective focusing on this author’s best known novels, studies and poems. Kadare’s…

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Vie, Jeu ET Mort De Lul Mazrek

Ismail Kadare

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Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990

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Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990

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Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990

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Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990

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The Fall of the Stone City

Ismail Kadare

From the Man Booker International Prize winner comes a story of the great city of Gjirokaster and of a secret meeting that may have changed the face of Europe in…

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The Traitor’s Niche

Ismail Kadare

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Tundj Hata…

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The Traitor’s Niche: A Novel

Ismail Kadare

People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy……

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Twilight of the Eastern Gods

Ismail Kadare

One of the earliest novels from Man Booker International Prize-winner Ismail Kadare, in English for the first time

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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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Essays On World Literature: Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Dante

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The Accident

Ismail Kadare

From the International Man Booker winner - a fever dream of a novel where love, jealousy and obsession collide

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A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.

Ismail Kadare

First published in Albanian as E penguara: Rekuiem peer Linda B. by Onufri A2009 –Title page verso.

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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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The Pyramid

Ismail Kadare

When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a…

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A Girl in Exile

Ismail Kadare

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee.

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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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The Doll

Ismail Kadare

‘A fascinating study of a difficult love’ John Burnside, Guardian Young Ismail’s world centres around his mother.

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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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