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The Siege

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By (author): Ismail Kadare

Translated by: David Bellos

It is the fifteenth century and war looms. The people of Albania have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire and they know their fate is sealed. As they take refuge in a fortress in the mountains, the army arrives and prepares to lay siege to the Christian citadel. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 240g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Dec 2018
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786893949

About Ismail Kadare

Born in 1936 Ismail Kadare was Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He died in 2024 aged 88.David Bellos Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.

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