Ismail Kadare
The Traitor's Niche
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEKadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality. -The New YorkerThe name of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare regularly comes up at Nobel Prize time, and he is still a good bet to win it one of these days . . . He is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting. -The New York TimesAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a nich…
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEKadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality. -The New YorkerThe name of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare regularly comes up at Nobel Prize time, and he is still a good bet to win it one of these days . . . He is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting. -The New York TimesAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy . . . Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital-a task he relishes and performs with fervor. As he travels through obscure and impoverished territories, he makes money from illicit side-shows, offering villagers the spectacle of death. The head of the rebellious Albanian governor would fetch a very high price indeed.The Traitor's Niche is a surreal tale of tyranny and rebellion, in a land where armies carry scarecrows, state officials ban entire languages, and the act of forgetting is more complicated than remembering.
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Weitere Autoren: Hodgson, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-64009-044-6
- EAN: 9781640090446
- Produktnummer: 23730822
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.3 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
Über den Autor
ISMAIL KADARE is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2015.JOHN HODGSON studied at Cambridge and Newcastle and has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana. This is the fifth novel by Ismail Kadare that he has translated.
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