Broken April - Hardcover

Kadare, Ismail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863569080 ISBN 13: 9780863569081

Publisher: Saqi Books, 2001

Synopsis

Set high up in the Albanian mountains, this novel tells of the tragic deaths of a young couple on their honeymoon. Their deaths become inextricably linked to a vendetta. The author has also written "The General of the Dead Army" and "Doruntine".

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Review:

Albania's most valuable literary export: the novels of Ismail Kadare.--Ken Kalfus "Village Voice Literary Supplement "

A major international novelist.--Herbert Mitgang "The New York Times "

Ismail Kadare's fiction has been compared with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Certainly he induces that same ironic double-take in his readers, by means of the child's magical view of life that is larger than most adults realize--Leonie Caldecott "The New York Times "

Ismail Kadare is a writer who maps a whole culture--its history, its passion, its folklore, its politics, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer.--Professor John Carey, Committee Chair, Man Booker International Prize 2005

Book Description:

'By any standard this is a considerable novel' Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0863569080
• ISBN 13: 9780863569081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240