The Ghost Rider - Softcover

Kadare, Ismail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847673414 ISBN 13: 9781847673411

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2010

Synopsis

A classic medieval mystery from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker Prize

About this title

About the Authors

Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare was Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He died in 2024, aged 88.

David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.

From the Back Cover

'One of the most important voices in literature today.' Metro

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstanding has been dead for years. What follows is a chain of events that plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

'Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists.' Los Angeles Times

'Kadare's writing is a striking reminder that great literature does not depend on circumstances, but overcomes them.' Independent

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847673414
• ISBN 13: 9781847673411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224