A classic medieval mystery from the Albanian master

Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten. A prequel to The Successor , this title draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror.

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.

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.

WWII is about to start, but life for a young boy in Albania is still a game. Yet, as the country falls to the Italians, then the Greeks, the Nazis, and is bombed by the British, the boy grows up, with his existence changing from 'terrifying and extraordinary' into a primitive world where girls disappear - possibly murdered by their own fathers.

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.

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel.

A fever dream of a novel where love, jealousy and obsession collide

"Un roman de dragoste, dar care vorbeste totodata despre fata intunecata a falsului paradis sovietic". (Le Magazine Litteraire)Ne aflam in anul 1958. Boris Pasternak tocmai a primit Premiul Nobel, iar intreaga lume est-europeana vuieste la aflarea vestii. Pe fondul unor relatii albano-sovietice tot mai reci, un tanar de origine albaneza care studiaza literatura la Institutul Maxim Gorki din Moscova, traieste timpuri confuze si complicate. Indragostit de eterica si fascinanta Lida, naratorul...

Tradus in zeci de limbi, Ismail Kadare este una dintre cele mai puternice voci ale literaturii europene contemporane. In 2005 i s-a acordat primul International Man Booker Prize. In Albania secolului al XV-lea, razboiul bate la usa. Locuitorii unei cetati de hotar si-au ales soarta. Nu au primit pacea otomana, pe care solia sultanului le-o promitea in schimbul abjurarii, iar acum asteapta riposta neintarziata a imperiului. Iar odata cu primavara, soseste si imensa armata turca, inaintand...

Palatul Viselor, "cea mai teribila si mai nemiloasa caricatura a totalitarismului in descompunere", dupa cum spunea Andre Clavel, a aparut intr-o prima varianta (Slujbasul de la Palatul Viselor) la Tirana, in 1981, si a fost interzis de regimul comunist al lui Enver Hodja. Kadare isi publica versiunea finala in 1990, la Editura Fayard, la scurt timp dupa emigrarea in Franta. Romanul, probabil cea mai curajoasa carte a lui Ismail Kadare, surprinde cosmarul orwellian amplificat intr-o izbucnire...

In 2005 Ismail Kadare a fost recompensat cu primul International Man Booker Prize Dupa ce l-a redactat intr-o forma semicodata intre 1984 si 1986, Kadare a depus manuscrisul romanului Umbra intr-o cutie de valori dintr-o banca pariziana, avand promisiunea editorului ca, in cazul in care va suferi un "accident", romanul va vedea lumina tiparului. Intr-o Albanie terorizata de dictatura, un tanar cineast ratat are privilegiul de a calatori in Occident. La intoarcere le povesteste prietenilor...

In Enver Hoxha's Albania, news was closely guarded and speculation forever rife. The political realities are typified in a Gala Concert in Beijing. The author has penned a glimpse inside a melting pot of rumour and reputation, as the morning's orthodoxies become heresies by dinner time and the Sino-Albanian axis finally comes adrift.

Tradus in zeci de limbi, Ismail Kadare este una dintre cele mai puternice voci ale literaturii europene contemporane. In 2005 i s-a acordat primul International Booker Prize.Un splendid roman de dragoste, cu elemente de policier si un suspans pe masura, Accidentul are in centru un cuplu enigmatic, a carui poveste se incurca in itele complicate ale unor jocuri de putere. Cu ramificatii in mitologia albaneza, cartea dezvaluie legaturile profunde dintre planul contemporan, aparent lipsit de...

At the heart of the Sultan's vast but fragile empire stands the Palace of Dreams, where an entire nation's consciousness is tapped into and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind. This book talks about the thought-police who have been the most effective instruments of oppression at the service of dictators.