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The General of the Dead Army is a moving and timely meditation on war and its consequences by the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, available again in paperback. Twenty years after World War II, an Italian general armed with maps, measurements, and dental records is sent to Albania to recover the remains of his country’s fallen soldiers. A quarrelsome priest joins him, and in rain and sleet they dig up the Albanian countryside once a battlefield, now a graveyard checking teeth and dog tags, assembling a dead army in pine-box uniforms. In addition to the brutal weather, they also battle the hostility of the Albanians working for them. This may be an errand of mercy for the general, but the chance to humiliate their one-time conquerors offers the Albanians a welcome vengeance. Fighting the hopelessness of his undertaking, the general finds his movements shadowed by a German general on the same gruesome mission for his own country. In a terrible crescendo at a wedding, the Italian general must answer for the crimes of his country and all countries that have invaded this land of eagles, seeking to destroy its people. Enthralling and poignant, The General of the Dead Army is an elegy for the young people of every country who are sent abroad to die in battle.
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Ismail Kadare is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, and is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. Translations of his novels have been published in more than forty countries. He divides his time between Paris, France, and Tirana, Albania.
Derek Coltman has translated such French works as Marie-Claire Blais’s A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, Jean Varenne’s Yoga and the Hindu Tradition, and Violette Leduc’s La Bātarde. He lives in England.
Derek Coltman has translated such French works as Marie-Claire Blais’s A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, Jean Varenne’s Yoga and the Hindu Tradition, and Violette Leduc’s La Bātarde. He lives in England.
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- PublisherArcade
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1611454182
- ISBN 13 9781611454185
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- Number of pages272
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