Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Softcover

Kadare, Ismail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611454735 ISBN 13: 9781611454734

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old reemerge in daily life. The marriage of a girl and a snake is not just a legend but a news item a cyclical event that is as much part of the modern world as of the ancient one. Set against this Kafkaesque backdrop, a simple and sensual love story between a painter and a young woman stands out as light against dark. 

With its rich and somber story of local traditions and universal themes, Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is a masterpiece belonging to Kadare’s purest classical vein.

About this title

Product Description

Rare book

Review

"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)

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1611454735
• ISBN 13: 9781611454734
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192