Spring Flowers, Spring Frost: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kadare, Ismail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1559706694 ISBN 13 : 9781559706698

Editeur : Arcade Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Ismail Kadare

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B-, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. The ghastly Kanun, regulator of medieval Albania's blood vendettas, is dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And the ultra-explosive secrets of the state archives, rumoured to be buried in the area, are threatening to flood the entire nation. As Mark, an artist, struggles to complete portraits of his inextricably disturbed girlfriend and of the iceberg that struck the Titanic, he finds the dreamy, peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism, by the renaissance of Brezhnev and Oedipus and by the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.

Quatrième de couverture

'He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soul' Independent on Sunday

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.

See also: Broken April

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcade Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1559706694
• ISBN 13: 9781559706698
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible