Ismail Kadare

The Siege (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Bellos, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A plot as sparse, elemental and timeless as Homer, but related in an idiom of dread, ambiguity and irony that could come only from our own cynical contemporary dilemmas.'
Sunday Herald

'Kadare brings heroic daring to this brilliant exposé of the folly of war and the clash of civilisations.'
Irish Times

'It is Kadare's great achievement to create individuals who are at the same time archetypes . . . Powerfully atmospheric . . . Fascinating.'
Times Literary Supplement

'You don't have to make the connection between the world portrayed here and Hoxha's Albania to find this novel engrossing, to be awed by the scale of Kadare's ambition and achievement.'
Allan Massie, Scotsman

'The Anglophone world is only just discovering the strength of Kadare's fiction.'
Financial Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847675545
• Artikelnr.: 39120887

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.