Ismail Kadare

The Siege

Übersetzer: Bellos, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Siege" dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortressin the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the 15th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Us
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780802144751
• ISBN-10: 0802144756
• Artikelnr.: 28972607

Autorenporträt

Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. He studied in Tirana and Moscow, returning to Albania in 1960 after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize. 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.