Télécharger le livre :  A Dictator Calls
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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...

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Parution : 2023-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Doll
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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,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2020-01-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Traitor's Niche
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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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2017-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  A Girl in Exile
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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....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2016-03-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Three-Arched Bridge
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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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-04-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Concert
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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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Three Elegies For Kosovo
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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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Broken April
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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 -...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
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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....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The File On H
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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...

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Parution : 2010-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Palace Of Dreams
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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....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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