Ismaïl Kadaré - Böcker

I samma stund som den 26-åriga bergsbon Gjorg Berishas bror mördas av en granne är hans eget liv förbrukat. Byns sedvanerätt - Kanun - som styr livet på det albanska höglandet, kräver att Gjorg först tar livet av sin brors mördare för att sedan sj...

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Människornas drömmar rymmer stor sanningspotential - och stor fara. Drömmarnas palats [1981] utspelar sig i en fiktiv version av Ottomanska riket, i närheten av Albanien, där människor övervakas av ett imperium på ständig jakt efter de drömmar som...

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Vintern 1961 bryter det lilla kommunistiska Albanien alla diplomatiska förbindelser med jätten Sovjetunionen. Ingen i landet går opåverkad av de historiska omvälvningarna, skildrade i en symfoni av röster och visioner i Ismail Kadares lika poetisk...

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Gent flyr med sin älskade Lena från hennes tilltänkta brudgum. Men efter dem kommer en skåpbil full av män som är ute efter hämnd; på slätten utanför staden sitter den försmådde fästmannens hejdukar och bara väntar på klartecken för att skövla och...

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From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!' 'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'. As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers str...

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Vem förde hem Doruntine? är en omtolkning av en medeltida albansk legend. Med inslag av magisk realism och självsvåldiga anakronismer berättar Kadare om en flicka som förs hem från Böhmen till Albanien för att träffa sin mor. Enligt flickan är det...

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Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin...

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Gent flyr med sin älskade Lena från hennes tilltänkta brudgum. Men efter dem kommer en skåpbil full av män som är ute efter hämnd; på slätten utanför staden sitter den försmådde fästmannens hejdukar och bara väntar på klartecken för att skövla och...

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When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend - a woman immured in a castle wall to prevent it fr...

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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 i...

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Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in o...

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28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquishe...

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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 ...

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Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics...

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It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x...

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When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control they must be kept under the whip. S...

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When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefas latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to me...

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In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is Kadare's fictionalized recreation of his time spent at...

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"The Siege" dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortressin the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the 15th century.

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Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastr, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dream...

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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 autho...

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Two destinies intersect in this novel -- that of Gjorg, a young mountaineer who has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the code of the highlands; and that of a ...

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28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquishe...

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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 ent...

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Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have bee...

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Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf VrioniAt the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order t...

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From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!''Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strik...

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It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-r...

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When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend ? a woman immured in a castle wall to prevent it fr...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAt 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. Tundj Hata, the i...

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