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The Siege
by Kadare, Ismail
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1921351632
- ISBN 13
- 9781921351631
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About This Item
Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 328 pages. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2005. Ismail Kadare's The Siege dramatizes a fictional fifth century assault by the Ottoman Army on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control unfolds, Kadare's narrative opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires. His masterful prose brings to life the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the battlefield--as well as a dramatic view of those who command and those who fight and die. Hailed by The New Yorker as "Albania's most distinguished novelist," Kadare is a hero to his countrymen, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. Here, with this epic novel, he proves himself "an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil" (The Independent). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Albania; Medieval 10th to 15thc; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781921351631. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7500. . 9781921351631
Synopsis
Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in Gjirokastër, in the south of Albania. His first novel, The General of the Dead Army , established him as a major new voice in literature, and translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries. Chronicle in Stone , The Successor , and Agamemnon’s Daughter are all available from Doubleday Canada. In 2005 he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize. David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is the translator of seven of Ismail Kadare’s novels.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7500
- Title
- The Siege
- Author
- Kadare, Ismail
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1921351632
- ISBN 13
- 9781921351631
- Publisher
- Text Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- BZDB137 historical fiction, booker prize, albania, turkish, ottoman empire Fiction; Albania; Medieval 10th to 15thc; EAN: 9781921351631 Kadare, Ismail The Siege
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