The File on H.: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kadare, Ismail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611457998 ISBN 13 : 9781611457995

Editeur : Arcade, 2013

Synopsis

In the mid-1930s, two Irish Americans travel to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as The Iliad and The Odyssey without ever putting pen to paper. The answer, they believe, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining habitat of the oral epic.

But immediately upon their arrival, the scholars’ seemingly arcane research excites suspicion and puts them at the center of ethnic strife in the Balkans. Mistaken for foreign spies, they are placed under surveillance and are dogged by gossip and intrigue. It isn’t until a fierce-eyed monk from the Serbian side of the mountains makes his appearance that the scholars glimpse the full political import of their search for the key to the Homeric question.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ismail Kadare is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, and is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. He is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. Translations of his novels have been published in more than forty countries. He divides his time between Paris, France, and Tirana, Albania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcade
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611457998
• ISBN 13: 9781611457995
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible