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A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'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 fell ...Show more
Agamemnon's Daughter : A novella and stories by Ismail Kadare
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten. In his compelling prequel to "The Successor", Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. Published here in English for the first time, the spellbindin ...Show more
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
‘By any standard this is a considerable novel’ Sunday Telegraph From the moment that Gjorg’s brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit- for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother’s murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother’s killer, young Gjorg is ...Show more
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world. 'Where are we going, where are they taking us?'WWII is about to start, but life for a young boy in a small town in Albania is still a game. Yet, as the country falls to the Italians, then the Greeks, then eventually t ...Show more
Fall Of The Stone City by Ismail Kadare
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. It is the first step in a carefully planned invasion. But once at the mouth of the city, the troops are taken aback by a surprising act of rebellion that leaves the citizens fearful of a bloody counter-attack. Soon ...Show more
General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exace ...Show more
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
As spring arrives in an Albanian mountain town, a dreamy painter finds his quiet life disturbed by ancient love and modern barbarism, by the renaissance of Brezhnev and Oedipus, and by the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new found freedom.
The Accident by Ismail Kadare
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On the autobahn in Vienna, a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; only saying that the mysterious couple in the back seat seemed to be about to ...Show more
The Doll by Ismail Kadare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, Guardian Young Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naïve and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's imposing house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon. Yet despite her youthful nature, she is not withou ...Show more
The Doll by Ismail Kadare; John Hodgson (Translator);
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the first-ever Man Booker International Prize: 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) She surrendered the freedom and authority of a mother, in short, turned herself into a doll, to give me all possible liberty as a human being, in a world where freedom was so rare and hard t ...Show more
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages. What better place in which two Irish-American scholars might study the tradition of oral poetry, in the hope of understanding how the Homeric epics came to be composed and handed down, to elucidate the strange commerce ...Show more
The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has be ...Show more