The File On H

Vintage Classics

By: Ismail Kadare, David Bellos (Translator)

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Paperback | 3 August 2006 | Edition Number 1

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176 Pages

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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 realise 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.

About the Author

Ismail Kadare, born in 1936 in the mountain town of Gjirokaster, near the Greek border, is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Since the appearance of The General of the Dead Army in 1965, Kadare has published scores of stories and novels that make up a panorama of Albanian history linked by a constant meditation on the nature and human consequences of dictatorship. His works brought him into frequent conflict with the authorities from 1945 to 1985. In 1990 he sought political asylum in France, and now divides his time between Paris and Tirana. He is the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize.

Industry Reviews

Witty and touching. It consolidates Kadare's reputation as one of the finest writers to emerge from communist Europe * Sunday Times *
Eloquent, engaging and poignant * Irish Times *
A wicked and amusing satire of provincial life...it is also an elegiac celebration of the power of poetry * Times Literary Supplement *
Funny, strange, and melancholy * Guardian *
Knife-sharp satire...originality shines through * The Times *

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