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Author | : Ismail Kadare |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161145039X |
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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.
Author | : Ismail Kadare |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857863339 |
Download The Fall of the Stone City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 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.
Author | : Ismail Kadare |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781559707732 |
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"This, Ismail Kadare's most recent novel, is a fictional inquiry into the still-unexplained death of Mehmet Shehu, the man who for decades was the designated Number Two political figure in Communist dictator Enver Hoxha's ironfisted and increasingly paranoid regime." "On the night of December 13, 1981, the so-called Successor was shot dead, sometime between midnight and early morning. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? This is the burning question. There are a number of potential murderers: the architect in charge of renovating the Successor's new quarters, who knew of the secret underground passage to his home; a rising political figure, Adrian Hasobeu, who if the current successor were to disappear would surely be named Number Two; the dictator himself - known to his countrymen as the Guide - now ailing and almost blind, unable to countenance even the idea of being replaced; and, incredibly, the Successor's wife." "The Successor combines a tantalizing mystery with a historical novel (Who killed Mehmet Shehu?), a psychological examination (How do you live in a world where nothing is sure?), and an analysis of a dictatorship so repressive that its followers treat it as a religious faith, where love, and indeed all personal relations, are subject to the whims and demands of the state."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 1987-01-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0140252703 |
Download Under the Mountain Wall Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.
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Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452179131 |
Download A Stone Sat Still Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this moving companion to the Caldecott Honor–winning They All Saw a Cat, Brendan Wenzel tells the story of a seemingly ordinary stone. But it isn't just a stone—to the animals that use it, it's a resting place, a kitchen, a safe haven...even an entire world. With stunning illustrations in cut paper, pencil, collage, and paint, and soothing rhythms that invite reading aloud, A Stone Sat Still is a gorgeous exploration of perspective, perception, sensory experience, color, size, function, and time, with an underlying environmental message that is timely and poignant. Once again Wenzel shows himself to be a master of the picture book form.
Author | : Patrick Rothfuss |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : 9780575081451 |
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The third in 'The Kingkiller Chronicle' series of fantasy novels by Patrick Rothfuss.
Author | : Stuart Woods |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101547804 |
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Stone Barrington is faced with the biggest challenge of his life as Stuart Woods’s #1 New York Times bestselling series continues... After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, confirmed bachelor Stone Barrington is looking to stay in New York and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. Not only is he a rainmaker of one of the riches white-shoe law firms in town, he’s back in his element. Manhattan, after all, is his home, and no one is better than Stone at navigating both its shadowy underworlds and its chic society. But Arrington has other plans for Stone, and his life is about to take a turn he never imagined...
Author | : Ismail Kadare |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847679153 |
Download The Accident Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 backseat? 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.
Author | : Perry F. Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Future life |
ISBN | : 9780978592073 |
Download Chronicles of the Sacred Mountain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ismail Kadare |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1640092021 |
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"Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality." —The New Yorker 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. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy . . . Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital—a task he relishes and performs with fervor. 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 indeed. The Traitor's Niche is a surreal tale of tyranny and rebellion, in a land where armies carry scarecrows, state officials ban entire languages, and the act of forgetting is more complicated than remembering. Long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize "The name of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare regularly comes up at Nobel Prize time, and he is still a good bet to win it one of these days . . . He is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting." —The New York Times