A Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel by Meir Shalev  (9)
$16.50
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid  (100)
$11.20
|
Kennedy's Brain: A Novel by Henning Mankell  (8)
$17.79
|
The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare  (11)
$10.36
|
The Gathering (Man Booker Prize) by Anne Enright  (111)
$11.20
|
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but millions of other items are. Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Albania, that remote, unknown land, has found its voice in the novels of Kadare. In this one, the first of a forthcoming series, he takes as his subject the shattering impact of World War II as that cataclysm is lived by a small, immensely sensitive boy. After centuries of bondage to the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, Albania falls to the invading Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians again, then the Nazi hordes. Amid floods, British bombing, the action of partisans, the boy undergoes another kind of turbulence, that of growing up, the inner and outer experience ringing strange harmonies. He responds to the beauty of unattainable women, to witchcraft, literature, and later, when he is evacuated from his "stone city" to peasant and village life. Now his existence will be "marvelous, terrifying and extraordinary." Instead, it is primitive, barbaric, a world where the severed arm of a British airman becomes a talisman and "deflowered" girls disappear, possibly murdered by their fathers. Kadare commands a tumultuous, whirling scene as he brings his homeland into the literary mainstream.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
"Chronicle in Stone"...is epic in its simplicity; the history of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world."--Michael Dregni, Minneapolis Star Tribune
See all Editorial Reviews
Albania, that remote, unknown land, has found its voice in the novels of Kadare. In this one, the first of a forthcoming series, he takes as his subject the shattering impact of World War II as that cataclysm is lived by a small, immensely sensitive boy. After centuries of bondage to the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, Albania falls to the invading Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians again, then the Nazi hordes. Amid floods, British bombing, the action of partisans, the boy undergoes another kind of turbulence, that of growing up, the inner and outer experience ringing strange harmonies. He responds to the beauty of unattainable women, to witchcraft, literature, and later, when he is evacuated from his "stone city" to peasant and village life. Now his existence will be "marvelous, terrifying and extraordinary." Instead, it is primitive, barbaric, a world where the severed arm of a British airman becomes a talisman and "deflowered" girls disappear, possibly murdered by their fathers. Kadare commands a tumultuous, whirling scene as he brings his homeland into the literary mainstream.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
"Chronicle in Stone"...is epic in its simplicity; the history of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world."--Michael Dregni, Minneapolis Star Tribune
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Citations
(learn more)
7
books
cite this book:
See all 7 books citing this book
- The Bridge to Dalmatia: A Search for the Meaning of Place by Francis Violich on page 117, and Back Matter
- Who Was That Man?: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (The Masks Series) by Neil Bartlett in Back Matter
- Landscapes After the Battle by Juan Goytisolo in Front Matter
- The Crypto-Amnesia Club (Masks Series) by Michael Bracewell in Front Matter
- Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States by Michael Biggins on page 182
See all 7 books citing this book