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'Witty and touching...one of the finest writers to emerge from Communist Europe'
Sunday Times
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'newfangled' invention) in order to record the last oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to investigate how Homer's epics might have developed. However, the local governor is suspicious of their bizarre mission and suspects them of espionage. When he arranges for his own spy to follow them, the two researchers realise only too late that they have stumbled into a hornets' nest...
'A wicked and amusing satire of provincial life' Times Literary Supplement
See also: Broken April
Présentation de l'éditeur
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest.
This simple tale by Albania's most eminent and gifted novelist serves to lift the veil on one of the most secret and mysterious countries of modern Europe.
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