Ismail Kadare

Abril trencat és una novel·la d'Ismail Kadare publicada el 1978 adaptada al cinema i centrada en el kanun o codi de lleis tradicionals albaneses.

A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, and interpret the dreams of the people in the empire, seeking the ""master-dreams"" that give clues to the empire's destiny. 10,000 first printing.

The Three Arched Bridge is a 1978 novel by Ismail Kadare. The story concerns a very old Albanian legend written in verses, namely "Legjenda e Rozafes" The book differs heavily from the original legend as the legend calls for a castle that is being built, not a bridge.

Crònica de la ciutat de pedra és una novel·la d'Ismail Kadare publicada el 1971 i traduïda al català. Narra les vivències d'un nen a una ciutat d'Albània a la Segona Guerra Mundial des del seu punt de vista. De rererons autobiogràfic, els crítics han assenyalat que la ciutat de pedra, que es presenta sovint sota el …

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 …

The General of the Dead Army is a 1963 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is the author's most critically acclaimed novel. It is noted that Kadare was encouraged to write the book by Drago Siliqi, literary critic and director of the state-owned publishing house Naim Frashëri.

The Pyramid is a 1995 novel written by Ismail Kadare, considered one of the greatest works produced by this writer, rivaling The Garden Party, by Václav Havel. It is considered to serve both literary and a dissident purposes.