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Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'A fascniating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke an...

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin passed over the worldIn June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and they spoke about the arrest of Osip Mandelstam. A telephone call from the dictator was not something necessarily relishe...

Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke an...

From the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize: 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) about a mother as naive and fragile as a paper doll. At the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother.

In this autobiographical novel, Albania's most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom. "Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible." In his father's great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismai...

From the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize: 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent)'[A] fascinating study of a difficult love' John BurnsideAt the centre of young Ismail's world is the unknowable figure of his mother.

LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE "Grimly comic . . . Brilliant and laconic." -The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding indep...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical." -The Wall Street Journal "Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . A Girl in Exile, published in Albanian in 2009, may rekindle the worldwide hopes." -The New York Times Book Review During the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for quest...

Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, this is the third title in Kadare's "Ottoman Empire" - published for the first time in English - it is a surreal and chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny.

LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE "Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality." -The New Yorker "The name of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare regularly comes up at Nobel Prize time, and he is still a good b...

Author Ismail Kadare is often touted as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 2005 he won the inaugural International Man Booker prize A Girl in Exile is a book about learning to live with the dead, and with death, with shadows and with loss. It's about ghosts-about specters haunting people, places, states and psyches. From The Guardian: "Kadare is a writer who excels in the cataloguing of human errors and horrors, i...

Paperback edition of Kadare's original novel which portrays a relationship between a mysterious Albanian couple who died in a car crash in Vienna. Kadare won the first International Man Booker Prize. 'His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny' "Financial Times

Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. The Fall of the Stone City was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. Ismail Kadare is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Premio Pr¿i...

This elliptical novel chronicles the events surrounding the construction of a bridge to illustrate the bitter history of cultural enmity in the...

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.

From Man Booker International Prize winner Ismail Kadare comes a dizzying psychological thriller of twisted passions, dual identities, and political subterfuge. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the war in the Balkans, The Accident closely documents an affair between two young lovers.On a rainy morning in Vienna, a taxi pulls onto the autobahn only to crash into the median barrier moments later, hurling its two passengers-a man and a woma...

Originally published in English: Great Britain: Canongate Books, 2010.