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As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B-, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. The ghastly Kanun, regulator of medieval Albania's blood vendettas, is dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And the ultra-explosive secrets of the state archives, rumoured to be buried in the area, are threatening to flood the entire nation. As Mark, an artist, struggles to complete portraits of his inextricably disturbed girlfriend and of the iceberg that struck the Titanic, he finds the dreamy, peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism, by the renaissance of Brezhnev and Oedipus and by the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.
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Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in the Albanian mountain town of Girokaster near the Greek border. He is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. He established an uneasy modus vivendi with the Communist authorities until their attempts to turn his reputation to their advantage drove him in October 1990 to seek asylum in France. He is the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize.
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
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Harvill Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1860469892
ISBN 13: 9781860469893
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Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing paperback original in fine condition with no inscriptions, spine unbroken, just a very small light crease, top rear tip. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans. Seller Inventory # ABE-1720963988835
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost [Signed by Kadare]
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Harvill Press, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 1860469892
ISBN 13: 9781860469893
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Condition: Near Fine. London: Harvill Press, [2002]. First U.K. Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],182pp. A hint of shelf wear, textblock lightly toned, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. The late Albanian author's novel of 1990s post-Communist Albania, translated by David Bellos from the French translation of Jusuf Vrioni. Kadare's signature quite rare. Seller Inventory # 31555
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