Three Elegies for Kosovo

Informationen zum Autor Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020. Klappentext In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo. In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. 'An utterly captivating yarn: strange, vivid, ominous, macabre and wise' New York Times Zusammenfassung Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Ismail Kadare, Kadare Ismail
• Assisted by: Peter Constantine (Translation), Constantine Peter (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9780099560951
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956095-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Kosovo, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary