Doruntine - by Ismail Kadare (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>...a magical parable of love, death and the power of familial bonds. -Stephen Salisbury, New York Times Book Review<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>...a magical parable of love, death and the power of familial bonds. -Stephen Salisbury, New York Times Book Review<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A great writer.--Booklist<br><br>A master storyteller. He has a knack like Isak Dinesen's for creating a long-ago atmosphere for a story essentially timeless.--Chicago Tribune<br><br>Albania's Kadare is probably the premier writer of fiction to have emerged from the Balkan countries since Bosnian Nobel-winning novelist Ivo Andric.--Kirkus<br><br>Fiction laced with a sophisticated literary self-awareness.--The Christian Science Monitor<br><br>Kadare's is a voice unlike any other in contemporary fiction. The Nobel can't come a moment too soon.--Kirkus<br><br>Kadare's prose glimmers with the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.--Los Angeles Times<br><br>One of contemporary fiction's greatest prose lyricists.--The Philadelphia Inquirer<br><br>One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language.--The Wall Street Journal<br><br>Writing like this is hard to stop quoting, it is musical not only in rhythms, but in its most elemental perceptions.--Nation<br><br>Ismail Kadare is a writer who maps a whole culture--its history, its passion, its folklore, its politics, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer.--Professor John Carey, Committee Chair, Man Booker International Prize 2005<br><br>The great modern Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare, has given us a masterpiece, Doruntine, at once romantic and contemporary in spirit. Here is a spell-binding new literary mode, with its suspense, its alertness, its suggestiveness, its intensely local flavor--an age-old legend transformed into a splendid fable.--Alain Bosquet "Lettres Etrangeres "<br><br>A magical parable of love, death, and the power of familial bonds.--Stephan Salisbury "The New York Times "<br><br>A major international novelist.--Herbert Mitgang "The New York Times "<br><br>Ismail Kadare's fiction has been compared with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Certainly he induces that same ironic double-take in his readers, by means of the child's magical view of life that is larger than most adults realize.--Leonie Caldecott "The New York Times "<br><br>Albania's most valuable export: the novels of Ismail Kadare.--Ken Kalfus "Village Voice Literary Supplement "<br>
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