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"Chronicle in Stone"…is epic in its simplicity; the history of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world."-Michael Dregni, Minneapolis Star Tribune

In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young worker for the Albanian state-controlled media agency narrates the story of his ill-fated love for the daughter of a high-ranking official. When he witness the ghostly image of Agamemnon-the Ancient Greek king who sacrificed his own daughter for reasons of State-on the reviewing stand during a May Day celebration, he begins to suspect the full catastrophe of his devotion. Also included are "The Blinding Order," a parable of the Ottoman Empire about the uses of terror in authoritarian regimes, and "The Great Wall," a chilling duet between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of the Tamerlane.

About the Author: Ismail Kadare is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. He lives in Paris and Tirana.

A new novel from the acclaimed winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction.

The Successor is a powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.

The man who died was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. The world was so certain that he was next in line that he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before he was to assume power, he was found dead. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered?

The Successor is simultaneously a page-turning mystery, a historical novel — based on actual events and buttressed by the author’s private conversations with the son of the real-life Mehmet Shehu — and a psychological challenge to the reader to decide, How does one live when nothing is sure? The Successor seamlessly blends dream and reality, legendary past, and contemporary history, and proves again that Kadare stands alongside Márquez, Canetti, and Auster.

June 28, 1389: six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for a new massacre in Kosovo, there took place, on the Field of the Blackbirds, a battle shrouded in legend. A coalition of Serbs, Albanian Catholics, Bosnians, and Rumanians confronted and were defeated by the Ottoman army of Sultan Murad. This battle became the centerpiece of Serbian nationalist ideology, justifying the campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Albanian Kosovars. In three stories resonant with mystery, Ismail Kadare explores the legend and the consequences of that defeat.

— A heartfelt and yet clear-eyed lament for a land riven by hatreds as old as the Homeric epics and as young as the latest news broadcast.

Two destinies intersect in . The first is that of Gjor, a young mountaineer who (much against his will) has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the provisions of the Code that regulates life in the highlands. The second is that of a young couple on their honeymoon who have come to study the age-old customs of the place, including the blood feud.

While the story is set in the early twentieth century, life on the high plateaus of Albania takes life back to the Dark Ages. The bloody shirt of the latest victim is hung up by the bereaved for all to see — until the avenger in turn kills his man with a rifle shot. For the young bride, the shock of this unending cycle of obligatory murder is devastating. The horror becomes personified when she catches a glimpse of Gjor as he wanders about the countryside, waiting for the truce of thirty days to end, and life with it. That momentary vision of the hapless murderer provokes in her a violent act of revulsion and contrition. Her life will be marked by it always.

Titulo fundamental dentro de la obra de Ismael Kadaré (1936), El ocaso de los dioses de la estepa (1978)- cuya versión definitiva, publicada en 1998 tras la caída del régimen comunista en Albania es la que ahora se ofrece- se nutre de las experiencias del autor, tanto personales como literarias, en sus estancia juvenil en la Unión Soviética. Si bien pueden rastrearse ya en ella algunos de los motivos que son recurrentes en su obra -como la confrontación de los mitos eslavos y albaneses o las relaciones entre el poder y la literatura-, la novela constituye una acerba y corrosiva crítica de los principios que dieron forma al yermo “realismo socialista”, así como de la mediocridad y la insania del régimen soviético contra los grandes escritores, personificados aquí en Boris Pasternak, cuya novela Doctor Zhivago forma parte de la trama misma de la narración.

From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize — a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Marquez, and Rushdie-the stunning new translation of one of his major works.

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough, dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed minarets, and tens of thousands of men fill the plain below. From this moment on, the world is waiting to hear that the fortress has fallen.

The Siege tells the enthralling story of the weeks and months that follow — of the exhilaration and despair of the battlefield, the constantly shifting strategies of war, and those whose lives are held in the balance, from the Pasha himself to the artillerymen, astrologer, blind poet, and harem of women who accompany him.

"Believe me," the general said. "I've taken part in many sieges but this," he waved towards the castle walls, "is where the most fearful carnage of our times will take place. And you surely know as well as I do that great massacres always give birth to great books. You really do have an opportunity to write a thundering chronicle redolent with pitch and blood, and it will be utterly different from the graceful whines composed at the fireside by squealers who never went to war."

Brilliantly vivid, as insightful as it is compelling, The Siege is an unforgettable account of the clash of two great civilisations, and a portrait of war that will resonate across the centuries.

"Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness." — Los Angeles Times

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

Un taxi se sale inexplicablemente de la calzada y se estrella en la carretera que lleva al aeropuerto de Viena. Como consecuencia del choque, los dos pasajeros, un hombre maduro y una mujer joven, ambos de nacionalidad albanesa, resultan muertos. Las investigaciones policiales no consiguen aclarar qué fue lo que despistó al taxista al mirar por el retrovisor como para perder el control del vehículo. El asunto queda archivado como un mero accidente, aunque con el calificativo de extraño. Meses más tarde, los servicios de inteligencia serbios y albaneses primero, y un investigador anónimo después, reclaman el expediente e inician sus propias pesquisas. El fallecido, Besfort Y., era un experto para asuntos balcánicos del Consejo de Europa que había seguido de cerca el proceso de descomposición de Yugoslavia, especialmente la guerra de Kosovo. La mujer que lo acompañaba, Rovena, se había entrevistado con él en distintos hoteles de toda Europa, por lo que podría estar implicada en las nunca desveladas actividades de Besfort. A través de los indicios policiales, testimonios de amigos y conocidos, un diario de Rovena…, se va trazando un bosquejo de la personalidad de los fallecidos y, sobre todo, de su particular relación amorosa.

From the Albanian writer who has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize comes a hypnotic narrative of ancient Egypt, a work that is at once a historical novel and an exploration of the horror of untrammeled state power. It is 2600 BC. The Pharaoh Cheops is inclined to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox: it keeps the Egyptian people content by oppressing them utterly. The pyramid is the pillar that holds power aloft. If it wavers, everything collapses.And so the greatest pyramid ever begins to rise. It is a monument that crushes dozens of men with the placing of each of its tens of thousands of stones. It is the subject of real and imaginary conspiracies that necessitate ruthless purges and fantastic tortures. It is a monster that will consume all Egypt before it swallows the body of Cheops himself. As told by Ismail Kadare, The Pyramid is a tour de force of Kafkaesque paranoia and Orwellian political prophecy. "A haunting meditation on the matter-of-fact brutality of political despotism." — The New York Times Book Review" Kadare's prose glimmers with the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez." — Los Angeles Times Book Review" One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language." — Wall Street Journal

Era una ciudad sorprendente que, como un ser prehistórico, parecía haber surgido bruscamente en el valle en una noche de invierno para escalar penosamente la falda de la montaña. Todo en ella era viejo y pétreo, desde las calles y las fuentes hasta los tejados de sus soberbias casas seculares, cubiertos de losas de piedra gris semejantes a escamas gigantescas. Resultaba difícil creer que bajo aquella formidable coraza subsistiera y se renovara la carne tierna de la vida. No resultaba fácil ser niño en esta ciudad. Y tampoco en esos tiempos, vísperas de la Segunda guerra mundial. La novela autobiográfica del reconocido autor albanés está contada desde la perspectiva de un niño cuya voz nos desvela un mundo fuera de la historia, en el que supersticiones y acontecimientos se encabalgan y entremezclan hasta darle a estas memorias de infancia un carácter de onírica reflexión.