The Fall of the Stone City

Name: The Fall of the Stone City
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Ismail Kadare
ISBN: 9780857860125

Ismail Kadare

05/12/2013
Canongate Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Fall of the Stone City par Ismail Kadare

Résumé

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, 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.