Ismail Kadare Books
The pyramid
Egypt in the twenty-sixth century B.C. Young Pharaoh Cheops thinks he'll forego the construction of a pyramid in his honor, an edifice that strikes him as the symbol of a singularly macabre obsessi...
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The three-arched bridge
The receding Byzantine empire has left behind a patchwork of warring principalities, peopled by a volatile mix of Croats and Serbs, Bulgars and Magyars, Albanians and Greeks. The people here fight...
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The file on H.
In the mid 1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder, in hand. Their mission? To discover how Homer c...
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Spring flowers, spring frost
"In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands, life appears to go on as it always has, but people are in a state of shock. The robbery of a local bank is seen as a sign of modern times and...
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