Ismail Kadare

Chronicle In Stone (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bellos, David / Übersetzer: Bellos, David; Pipa, Arshi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Chronicle in Stone is stunning, the quintessential tale of war seen through a child's eyes."
Los Angeles Times

The story of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world.

In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare's young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town - and his own innocence and sense of wonder - are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War.

A disturbing mix of tragedy, comedy, politics and sexuality, Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating early masterpiece from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize.

"Sophisticated and accomplished in its poetic prose and narrative deftness."
John Updike, New Yorker

"A master storyteller."
John Carey

Translated by David Bellos

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847678546
• Artikelnr.: 39120670

Autorenporträt

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.