General Of The Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task.
He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and OrwellBut Kadare's is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil * Independent on Sunday *
A novelist of dazzling mastery -- Paul Binding * Independent *
Astonishing...his finest work -- Azar Nafisi, Man Booker judge and author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' * Guardian *
With its metonymic realism and fidelity to its characters, The General of the Dead Army reminds us why his work is so valued * New Statesman *
Literary gold dust - haunting, bleakly comedic and ultimately horrific * The Times *
A novelist of dazzling mastery -- Paul Binding * Independent *
Astonishing...his finest work -- Azar Nafisi, Man Booker judge and author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' * Guardian *
With its metonymic realism and fidelity to its characters, The General of the Dead Army reminds us why his work is so valued * New Statesman *
Literary gold dust - haunting, bleakly comedic and ultimately horrific * The Times *
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) 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, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099518266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099518260 |
| Title | General Of The Dead Army |
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-12-04 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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