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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 själv bli fångatagen och avrättad. Efter att ha skjutit mördaren får Gjorg 30 dagars nåd, inte tillräckligt med tid för att genomleva slutet av april månad. Ett ungt par besöker bergen under sin smekmånad för att studera platsens uråldriga sedvänjor, även den om blodsfejd. De möter Gjorg och den nygifta bruden känner starkt för hans öde, så pass stark att till och med dessa »civiliserade« främlingar riskerar att bli indragna i vendettans ödesdigra mekanismer. I Grymma april undersöker Ismail Kadare både Gjorgs och det unga parets öden genom en ändlös våldscykel - där obligatoriska mord ingår - och den grymma effekten den har på deras respektive liv. Här i översättning av Dagmar Olsson, med ett nyskrivet efterord av journalisten och författaren Kajsa Ekis Ekman.
ISMAIL KADARE [f. 1936] är en albansk författare med franskt medborgarskap. Han fick sitt internationella genombrott redan med debuten Den döda arméns general [1963] och hans romaner finns i dag översatta till över trettio språk. Med Grymma april [1978] fortsätter Modernista den nyutgivning av Ismail Kadares författarskap som inleddes med romanerna Krönika i sten [1971], Den hårda vintern [1973] och Drömmarnas palats [1981].
»Grymma april tillhör Kadares absolut främsta verk - en förtätad kombination av grekiskt ödesdrama, saga, satir och Kafkas Slottet.« Nils Schwartz, Expressen
»En tidlös berättelse om hämnd, om mötet mellan stad och land, om illusion och verklighet. En text som i sin välkomponerade form känns som en färdig klassiker.« Johan Dalbäck, Göteborgs-Posten
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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 hotar rikets säkerhet. I det medieövervakningens tidevarv som många menar att vi bara sett morgonen av, ter sig Ismail Kadares roman knappast mindre aktuell än när den skrevs.I översättning av Agneta Rehder och med ett nyskrivet förord av kritikern Henrik C. Enbohm.ISMAIL KADARE [f. 1936] är en albansk författare med franskt medborgarskap. Han fick ett internationellt genombrott redan med debutromanen Den döda arméns general [1963] och hans romaner finns i dag översatta till fler än trettio språk. Till priser han erhållit hör Prix mondial Cino Del Duca 1992; Man Booker International Prize 2005 och Prinsen av Asturiens pris 2009. Modernista inleder nu sin utgivning av Kadares författarskap med de tre romanerna Krönika i sten [1971], Den hårda vintern [1977] och Drömmarnas palats [1981].
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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 poetiska som politiskt bistra romanepos Den hårda vintern [1978].I översättning av Marianne Eyre och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och kritikern Kajsa Ekis Ekman.ISMAIL KADARE [f. 1936] är en albansk författare med franskt medborgarskap. Han fick ett internationellt genombrott redan med debutromanen Den döda arméns general [1963] och hans romaner finns i dag översatta till fler än trettio språk. Till priser han erhållit hör Prix mondial Cino Del Duca 1992; Man Booker International Prize 2005 och Prinsen av Asturiens pris 2009. Modernista inleder nu sin utgivning av Kadares författarskap med de tre romanerna Krönika i sten [1971], Den hårda vintern [1977] och Drömmarnas palats [1981].
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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 hennes bror som har hämtat henne, men i hembyn vet man att brodern har varit död i tre år. Fursten ger traktens polischef i uppdrag att utreda vad som har hänt. Som så ofta hos Kadare spelar lokala albanska föreställningar och sedvänjor en bärande roll. I denna historia: »bessa«, ett heligt löfte som inte får brytas. I svensk översättning av Marianne Eyre.
ISMAIL KADARE [f. 1936] är en albansk författare med franskt medborgarskap. Han fick sitt internationella genombrott redan med debuten Den döda arméns general [1963] och hans romaner finns i dag översatta till över trettio språk. Till priser han erhållit hör Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca 1992; Man Booker International Prize 2005 och Prinsen av Asturiens pris 2009. Med Grymma april [1978] fortsätter Modernista den nyutgivning av Ismail Kadares författarskap som inleddes med romanerna Krönika i sten [1971], Den hårda vintern [1973] och Drömmarnas palats [1981].
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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War.A disturbing mix of tragedy and comedy, politics and sexuality, Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating masterpiece about what it means to grow up in a turbulent world.
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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 strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.‘One of the many pleasures of Mr Kadare's writing is his supremely light touch’ New York Times
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From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit.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 entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April.Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta.'One of the most remarkable European novelists of the twentieth century' Independent
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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 been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest.This simple tale by Albania's most eminent and gifted novelist serves to lift the veil on one of the most secret and mysterious countries of modern Europe.‘Witty and touching. It consolidates Kadare's reputation as one of the finest writers to emerge from communist Europe’ Sunday Times
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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 into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business, past and present, to suffering self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the people whose graves they are unearthing.‘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
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Discover a novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own. Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981.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 order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government...Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni
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A hard-hitting parable about the conflicts that have ravaged the Balkan states, by Albania’s most influential novelist.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 from falling. Some say the bridge is being damaged by local ferrymen, others blame the vengeful water spirits. But this is a town where terror and superstition reign and a solution must be reached. So it is decreed: a willing person must be plastered into the bridge…‘A vivid, macabre and wise novel’ New York Times
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A chilling portrait of life under Communist rule by Albania's most important writerIt'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-rays of the foot back and forth. The Chinese intend to punish their interfering little ally discreetly. But is the Sino-Albanian axis about to come adrift? This is Kadare’s surreal black comedy about the inner sanctums of political power and the mysterious causal chains that transform ordinary lives.‘The Concert is a splendidly deep and serious novel that entirely transcends, as it were, its unremarkable outer garment… Kadare's achievement is to dramatise truthfully throughout. This is a book to read and re-read’ Guardian
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Discover Kadare's classic parable of life under a communist dictatorshipWhen 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. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its neighbours plot and gloat…‘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
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In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history28 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 vanquished ever since.28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo.In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century.‘An utterly captivating yarn: strange, vivid, ominous, macabre and wise’ New York Times
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When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s 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 meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book. As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication – to Linda B.‘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
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Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013.In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel, a reunion in the town square and a fateful dinner party that would transform twentieth-century Europe. A captivating novel of resistance in a dictatorship, and steeped in Albanian folklore, The Fall of the Stone City shows Kadare at the height of his powers.
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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 author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous?Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city, a story of youthful disenchantment and a reminder of the incredible importance of the written word.
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024**'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 fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history.Weaving together the accounts of witnesses, reporters and writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, Kadare tells a gripping story of power and political structures, of the relationship between writers and tyranny. The telling brings to light uncanny parallels with Kadare's experience writing under dictatorship, when he received an unexpected phone call of his own.Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson‘One of Europe's most decorated authors... Seasoned fans [of Kadare] will be enthralled’ Sunday Times
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The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature - Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare - through the lens of resisting totalitarianism.
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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 without her own enigmas. Most of all, she fears that her intellectual, radical son will exchange her for a superior mother when he becomes a famous writer.From the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize, this is a disarming story of home and creative ambition, of personal and political freedom. Rooted in the author's own childhood in Albania, it is dedicated to the memory of his mother.‘A master storyteller’ John Carey'Laconic, sinister and drily funny' Spectator
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A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.At 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 imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital – a task he relishes and performs with fervour. But as he travels through obscure and impoverished territories, he makes money from illicit side-shows, offering villagers the spectacle of death. The head of the rebellious Albanian governor would fetch a very high price. A surreal tale of rebellion and tyranny from the master of European literature.'A master storyteller' John Carey
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It is the fifteenth century and war looms. The people of Albania have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire and they know their fate is sealed. As they take refuge in a fortress in the mountains, the army arrives and prepares to lay siege to the Christian citadel.
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The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14.Did he kill himself or was he murdered? This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts. As the tension builds and rumours escalate, Kadare draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands, blending dream and reality to produce a mystery and a thriller that seduces and surprises up to the last page.
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In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon's Daughter was written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. It reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds.From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state. Through the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover's odyssey through a single day, we are given a true sense of how hard it can be to remain human in a world ruled by fear and suspicion.
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Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat?How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clouded in jealousy and mistrust?Who wanted them dead?This is the story of the last forty weeks of their lives - a fever dream where love and obsession collide.
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An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman 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 been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?