Ismail Kadare

A Dictator Calls

By Ismail Kadare - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Ismail Kadare’s A Dictator Calls is an electrifying account of a particular point in history that is disputed. In 1934, Joseph Stalin apparently ...Read Review

The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother

By Ismail Kadare - By John Hodgson (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and other prestigious awards, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s most well-known novelist and poet. This ...Read Review

The Traitor’s Niche

By Ismail Kadare - By John Hodgson (trans.) - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

The book opens at the heart of the Ottoman Empire. We are in a square in the ancient Imperial capital; and in this ...Read Review

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

By David Bellos (trans.) - By Ismail Kadare - Published 2014

Genres:

Literary

Twilight of the Eastern Gods, by internationally acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, is one of this Man Booker International Prize winner’s early ...Read Review

The Fall of the Stone City

By Ismail Kadare - Published 2012Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

The Fall of the Stone City is a translation form the Albanian of a short novel by Ismail Kadare, set in Kadare’s ...Read Review

The General of the Dead Army

By Ismail Kadare - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Winner of the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005, Kadare’s debut novel (originally published in 1970) embodies the problem of a state which ...Read Review

Agamemnon’s Daughter

By David Bellos (trans.) - By Ismail Kadare - Published 2007 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

Tyranny is the theme of this absorbing novella and two short stories. Written by Albania’s best known novelist, who experienced totalitarianism firsthand, ...Read Review