In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokast�r, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel, a reunion in the town square and a fateful dinner party that would transform twentieth-century Europe.

A captivating novel of resistance in a dictatorship, and steeped in Albanian folklore, The Fall of the Stone City shows Kadare at the height of his powers.

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"One of the most important voices in literature today" (Metro)

"A master storyteller" (John Carey)

"One of the world's greatest living writers" (Simon Sebag Montefiore)

"There are very few writers alive today with the depth, power and resonance of this remarkable novelist" (Herald)

"His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards" (Financial Times)

"One of the great writers of our time" (Scotsman)

"Ismail Kadare has sometimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why" (Scottish Mail on Sunday)

"There are books which seem less the second-time round; Kadare's seem more . . . one can relish his mastery of tone and the tireless probing intelligence of narrative" (Allan Massie The Scotsman)

"Both in his deployment of material and in his vision of life, Kadare is the equal of the often invoked Kafka" (Literary Review)

"Ismail Kadare is a great writer, by any nation's standards" (Financial Times)

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