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Former archaeologist Silva Dibra's brother, a tank cops officer, has been dismissed from the Albanian army, arrested, and taken away. In the effort to learn her brother's fate, Silva and a band of friends and family mount an investigation that leads from Tirana, Albania's capital, to the Chinese-controlled, steel mills of the north, and ultimately to Beijing. China is somehow involved with the increasingly desperate situation in Albania, but no one knows the extent of its secret alliances, political levers, and economic control. Skender Bermema, a famous writer and friend of Silva's, is sent to China on a fact-finding mission, and is confronted with nothing less, and nothing more, than the reality of Mao Tse-tung's China, a nation intent on crushing individuality, independence, and creativity. Mao's true agenda remains veiled-and thus the intriguing promise of a mysterious gala concert to be held in Beijing, where the hand-picked foreign invitees expect to be able to decipher in the colors, figures, and gestures of the Chinese actors a message about China's intentions. And no matter what any of them may be expecting, the message is shocking beyond their wildest imaginations.
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Review:
"His finest book is The Concert, an epic study of the Albanians when living under the thumb of their sole world ally, the Chinese. It is half realism, half Borgesian, and the form and content jointly stun" (Independent)
"The Concert is a splendidly deep and serious novel that entirely transcends, as it were, its unremarkable outer garment... Kadare's achievement is to dramatise truthfully throughout. This is a book to read and re-read" (Guardian)
"It is Shakespearian in its sweep of history with its insertions of poetic and theatrical farce and its description of the contortions Albanians had to perform to survive Marxist doctrine" (Sydney Morning Herald)
"The Concert is among the richest, most complex and most challenging works of his fictional cycle... Kadare's achievement is to have found once again the set of tricks that create the illusion of real life on the printed page" (Sydney Morning Herald)
"He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare’s is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil" (Independent on Sunday)
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"The Concert is a splendidly deep and serious novel that entirely transcends, as it were, its unremarkable outer garment... Kadare's achievement is to dramatise truthfully throughout. This is a book to read and re-read" (Guardian)
"It is Shakespearian in its sweep of history with its insertions of poetic and theatrical farce and its description of the contortions Albanians had to perform to survive Marxist doctrine" (Sydney Morning Herald)
"The Concert is among the richest, most complex and most challenging works of his fictional cycle... Kadare's achievement is to have found once again the set of tricks that create the illusion of real life on the printed page" (Sydney Morning Herald)
"He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare’s is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil" (Independent on Sunday)
Albania's best-known novelist and poet and one of Europe's great living writers, he bears comparison to Gogal, Kafka and Orwell
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- PublisherArcade Pub
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611452422
- ISBN 13 9781611452426
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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