Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
by:
Ismail Kadaré (author)
A story of a country attempting to reconcile its new freedom with old rituals, secrets and betrayals. From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!' 'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'. As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some...
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A story of a country attempting to reconcile its new freedom with old rituals, secrets and betrayals.
From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!'
'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.
As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.
źródło opisu: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099449838/is...(?)
źródło okładki: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099449838/is...»
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780099449836
Publish date: 6 listopada 2003
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Magical Realism,
Albanian Literature,
Fiction,
21st Century
So, first of all I'm happy to report that Romanians have a very good translation of the book, thanks to Marius Dobrescu. I understand the situation is not so good for the English version, which is translated from French, which is translated from Albanian. huh!People say that in order to like this bo...
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