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"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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- PublisherHarvill Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1860469892
- ISBN 13 9781860469893
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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