A stunning, deeply affecting portrait of life and love under surveillance, infused with myth, wry humour and the chilling absurdity of a paranoid regime.
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, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020.
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*
[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
*Sunday Times*
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
*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
*The Times*
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