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The Traitor's Niche

Ismail Kadare
The Traitor s Niche Book PDF

Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640092020

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"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 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 independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy . . . Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital—a task he relishes and performs with fervor. As he travels through obscure and impoverished territories, he makes money from illicit side–shows, offering villagers the spectacle of death. The head of the rebellious Albanian governor would fetch a very high price indeed. The Traitor's Niche is a surreal tale of tyranny and rebellion, in a land where armies carry scarecrows, state officials ban entire languages, and the act of forgetting is more complicated than remembering. Long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize "The name of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare regularly comes up at Nobel Prize time, and he is still a good bet to win it one of these days . . . He is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting." —The New York Times

The Successor

Ismail Kadare
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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559707739

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"This, Ismail Kadare's most recent novel, is a fictional inquiry into the still-unexplained death of Mehmet Shehu, the man who for decades was the designated Number Two political figure in Communist dictator Enver Hoxha's ironfisted and increasingly paranoid regime." "On the night of December 13, 1981, the so-called Successor was shot dead, sometime between midnight and early morning. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? This is the burning question. There are a number of potential murderers: the architect in charge of renovating the Successor's new quarters, who knew of the secret underground passage to his home; a rising political figure, Adrian Hasobeu, who if the current successor were to disappear would surely be named Number Two; the dictator himself - known to his countrymen as the Guide - now ailing and almost blind, unable to countenance even the idea of being replaced; and, incredibly, the Successor's wife." "The Successor combines a tantalizing mystery with a historical novel (Who killed Mehmet Shehu?), a psychological examination (How do you live in a world where nothing is sure?), and an analysis of a dictatorship so repressive that its followers treat it as a religious faith, where love, and indeed all personal relations, are subject to the whims and demands of the state."--BOOK JACKET.

A Girl in Exile

Ismail Kadare
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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640091634

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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 questioning by the Party Committee. A girl—Linda B.—has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession. He soon learns that Linda’s family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B. “At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare’s novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti–individualist system.” —The Washington Post “A Girl in Exile confirms Kadare to be the best writer at work today who remembers—almost aggressively so, refusing to forget—European totalitarianism.” —The New Republic

The Fall of the Stone City

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921961298

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The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare Pdf

In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. But a surprise dinner party between the Nazi Colonel in command of the German Army and local dignitary, Doctor Gurameto changes the course of events in twentieth-century Europe.

The Pyramid

Ismail Kadare
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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628723588

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The Pyramid by Ismail Kadare Pdf

Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC. The young pharaoh Cheops wants to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox, designed to appease the masses by oppressing them. It is a symbol of nothing, a useless and infinite project designed to waste the country’s wealth and keep security and prosperity, ever the fonts of sedition, constantly at bay. And so the greatest pyramid in the world has ever seen begins to rise. Rumors multiply. A secret police is formed. Conspiracies—real and imagined—swirl around the rising edifice. The most drastic purges follow. By the time the first stone is laid, Cheops’s subjects are terrified enough to yield to his most murderous whims. Each time one of the massive stones is hoisted into place, dozens of men are crushed, and there are tens of thousands of stones. . . .

Chronicle in Stone

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628721300

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Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of domination inundate his city. Through the boy’s eyes, we see the terrors of World War II as he witnesses fascist invasions, allied bombings, partisan infighting, and the many faces of human cruelty—as well as the simple pleasures of life. Evacuating to the countryside, he expects to find an ideal world full of extraordinary things, but discovers instead an archaic backwater where a severed arm becomes a talisman and deflowered girls mysteriously vanish. Woven between the chapters of the boy’s story are tantalizing fragments of the city’s history. As the devastation mounts, the fragments lose coherence, and we perceive firsthand how the violence of war destroys more than just buildings and bridges.

The Accident

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847673398

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A fever dream of a novel where love, jealousy and obsession collide

The File on H.

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611459944

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The File on H. by Ismail Kadare Pdf

In the mid-1930s, two Irish Americans travel to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as The Iliad and The Odyssey without ever putting pen to paper. The answer, they believe, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining habitat of the oral epic. But immediately upon their arrival, the scholars’ seemingly arcane research excites suspicion and puts them at the center of ethnic strife in the Balkans. Mistaken for foreign spies, they are placed under surveillance and are dogged by gossip and intrigue. It isn’t until a fierce-eyed monk from the Serbian side of the mountains makes his appearance that the scholars glimpse the full political import of their search for the key to the Homeric question.

The Accident

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847679154

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The Accident by Ismail Kadare Pdf

Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna? Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the backseat? How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clouded in jealousy and mistrust? Who wanted them dead? This is the story of the last forty weeks of their lives - a fever dream where love and obsession collide.

The Three-Arched Bridge

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611459906

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The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare Pdf

In the Balkan Peninsula, history’s long-disputed bridge between Asia and Europe, the receding Byzantine empire has left behind a patchwork of warring peoples who fight over everything, from their pastures of sheep to the authorship of their countless legends. One such gruesome tale declares that a castle under construction cannot be finished until a young mason’s bride has been walled up alive, one breast left exposed to suckle her growing infant even after her death. Myth becomes perverse reality when a mason is plastered into a bridge over a strategically important river, where his will not be the last human sacrifice.

The Palace of Dreams

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559704160

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When it was first published in the author's native country, THE PALACE OF DREAMS was immediately banned. The novel revolves around a secret ministry whose task is not just to spy on its citizens, but to collect and interpret their dreams. An entire nation's unconscious is thus tapped and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind.

The Concert

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559704152

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A group of Albanian friends are torn apart by the political turmoil of the mid 1970s, as the nation's diplomatic ties with China begin to unravel, and their personal entanglements follow suit in the face of government insecurity.

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857868909

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1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a fictionalised recreation of his time as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature - a strange 'factory of the intellect' set up to produce a new generation of Socialist writers. With its drunken nights, uninspiring professors, specially selected students and enforced Socialist Realism his time at the Gorky Institute brought Kadare to the brink of abandoning writing altogether. In English for the first time, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city and a time, it is a story of youth, of disenchantment and of the incredible importance of the written word.

Ismail Kadare

Peter Morgan
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Author : Peter Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351562003

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Ismail Kadare has experienced a life of controversy. In his own country and internationally he has been both acclaimed as a writer and condemned as a lackey of the Albanian socialist dictatorship. Coming of age after occupation and war, Kadare (b. 1936) belonged to the first generation of new Albanians. In a land where writers were routinely imprisoned, Kadare produced the most brilliant and subversive works to emerge from socialist Eastern Europe. His work brings to an end the century whose literary beginnings were marked by the terror to which Kafka gave his name. The inaugural award of the International Man-Booker Prize for Literature in 2005 marked an important milestone in the global recognition of Kadare. Ironic, multi-layered and imaginative, Kadare's writing is profoundly opposed to ideology. Through critical analysis of a representative selection of Kadare's works, Peter Morgan explains for a wide audience how Kadare survived and wrote in the repressive Albanian Stalinist environment. Peter Morgan is Professor of European Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Doruntine

Ismail Kadare
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Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-05
Category : Albania
ISBN : 9781561310326

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...a magical parable of love, death and the power of familial bonds. -Stephen Salisbury, New York Times Book Review