The File On H

Ismail Kadare

£9.99

Paperback

Fiction > Fiction in translation

ISBN: 9780099497196

Description

Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages.

What better place in which two Irish-American scholars might study the tradition of oral poetry, in the hope of understanding how the Homeric epics came to be composed and handed down, to elucidate the strange commerce between memory and forgetting.

The small country town through which they pass, and the remote inn that serves as their base, are not left unaffected, however, by their presence.

The two dedicated scholars realize 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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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm