Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/11/2003
ISBN: 9780099449836
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £9.99
From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!'
'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.
As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/11/2003
ISBN: 9780099449836
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £9.99
One of the many pleasures of Mr Kadare's writing is his supremely light touch
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
One of Europe's great writers
He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare is an original voice, universal, yet deeply rooted in his own soul