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ISMAIL KADARE is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2015.
JOHN HODGSON studied at Cambridge and Newcastle and has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana. This is the fourth novel by Ismail Kadare that he has translated.
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"Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing... executed with an elegant combination of horror, absurdity, indignation, and other-worldliness... A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work." ―Independent
"A compelling amalgam of realism, dreaminess and elegiac, white-hot fury. Kadare communicates with awful immediacy the nature of tyranny and the accommodations that those subject to it must make - as Kadare himself had to do." ―John Banville, Financial Times
"The literature Kadare has produced in the face of obstacles lesser writers would find insuperable, is, genuinely, of world significance... Invites comparison with Milan Kundera's recent satire on Stalinism, The Festival of Insignificance. Both writers are favourites, year-in, year-out for the Nobel prize. Kadare will not damage his prospects with A Girl in Exile." ―John Sutherland, The Times
"[Kadare] captures the paranoid nature of life under constant surveillance...and produces an ironic masterpiece." ―Daily Mail
"Filled with striking images and conceits... a powerful Kafkaesque charge... Kadare's imaginative intelligence ensures that it is chilling and intriguing." ―Theo Tait, Sunday Times
"Coolly ironic writing, which traverses ominous themes of censorship and state control... Kadare masterfully conjures an atmosphere of paranoia... This powerful novel is a monument." ―Francesca Wade, Daily Telegraph
"Melodrama, tragedy and myth illuminate the relationship between individual and state in a fine novel from the great Albanian writer." ―Guardian
Praise for Ismail Kadare
"Kadare's fiction evades ideologies, escaping into richer realms of the past, or myth, folklore and dystopian fantasy." ―Spectator
"Ismail Kadare is this generation's Kafka." ―Independent
"A Master storyteller." ―John Carey, author of The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life
"One of the world's greatest living writers." ―Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of One Night in Winter
"He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka, and Orwell. But Kadare's is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil." ―Independent on Sunday
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- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1846558468
- ISBN 13 9781846558467
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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