by Ismail Kadare
"It was a strange city, and seemed to have been cast up in the valley one winter's night like some prehistoric creature that was now clawing its way up the mountainside. Everything in the city was old and made of stone...It was hard to believe that, under this powerful carapace, the tender flesh of ...
"It was a strange city, and seemed to have been cast up in the valley one winter's night like some prehistoric creature that was now clawing its way up the mountainside. Everything in the city was old and made of stone...It was hard to believe that, under this powerful carapace, the tender flesh of ...