Albania- once a battlefield, now a charnel-house. And yet, life goes on . . .This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare's first novel.
ISMAIL KADARE, born in 1936 in the mountain town of Gjirokaster,
near the Greek border, is Albania's best-known poet and novelist.
Since the appearance of The General of the Dead Army in 1965,
Kadare has published scores of stories and novels that make up a
panorama of Albanian history linked by a constant meditation on the
nature and human consequences of dictatorship. "Dictatorship and
authentic literature are incompatible," he wrote. "The writer is
the natural enemy of dictatorship." His works brought him into
frequent conflict with the authorities from 1945 to 1985. In 1990
he sought political asylum in France, and now divides his time
between Paris and Tirana.
He is the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize.
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*
A novelist of dazzling mastery
*Independent*
Astonishing...his finest work
*Guardian*
With its metonymic realism and fidelity to its characters, The
General of the Dead Army reminds us why his work is so valued
*New Statesman*
Literary gold dust - haunting, bleakly comedic and ultimately
horrific
*The Times*
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