Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Softcover

Kadare, Ismail

3.26

1,172 ratings by Goodreads

9781559706698: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559706694 ISBN 13: 9781559706698

Publisher: Arcade Pub, 2005

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The love story between a painter and a girl is set against the backdrop of a country in the midst of terrifying change as its inhabitants deal with the Westernization of a backward Balkan land, witness a series of strange events, and search for a tunnel to the Secret State Archives, which supposedly house records of crimes that may have been committed. Reprint.

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"One of the many pleasures of Mr Kadare's writing is his supremely light touch" (New York Times)

"The themes are so sinister, the prose so genial. Post-communist disillusion and southern playfulness are blended here with such skill and subtlety that one almost fails to register Kadare's shocking originality" (Independent on Sunday)

"One of Europe's great writers" (Los Angeles Times)

"He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare is an original voice, universal, yet deeply rooted in his own soul" (Independent on Sunday)

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'He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare's is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soul' Independent on Sunday

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