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21%OFFIsmail Kadare - Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - 9780099449836 - V9780099449836
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

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Description for Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 168.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099449836
SKU
V9780099449836
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About Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare, born in 1936 in the mountain town of Gjirokaster, near the Greek border, is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Since the appearance of The General of the Dead Army in 1965, Kadare has published scores of stories and novels that make up a panorama of Albanian history linked by a constant meditation on the nature and human consequences ... Read more

Reviews for Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
One of the many pleasures of Mr Kadare's writing is his supremely light touch
New York Times
The themes are so sinister, the prose so genial. Post-communist disillusion and southern playfulness are blended here with such skill and subtlety that one almost fails to register Kadare's shocking originality
Independent on Sunday
One ... Read more

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