The Fall of the Stone City
by:
Ismail Kadaré (author)
The Fall of the Stone City The much anticipated new novel from the Man Booker International Prize winner - a story of the great city of Gjirokaster and of a secret meeting that may have changed the face of Europe in the twentieth century. Full description
The Fall of the Stone City The much anticipated new novel from the Man Booker International Prize winner - a story of the great city of Gjirokaster and of a secret meeting that may have changed the face of Europe in the twentieth century. Full description
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780857860118 (0857860119)
Publish date: August 30th 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English
I found this an interesting, yet strange read. I'm not sure if this was down to the translation, or the style of the original text. It is set in 1943, at the time when Mussolini and the Nazis parted ways and Albania found itself abandoned by the Italians, leaving the country wide open for Nazi invas...