The File on H

Informationen zum Autor Ismail Kadare Klappentext Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.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. 'Witty and touching. It consolidates Kadare's reputation as one of the finest writers to emerge from communist Europe' Sunday Times Zusammenfassung Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ismail Kadare, Kadare Ismail
• Assisted by: David Bellos (Translation), Bellos David (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9780099497196
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949719-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Albania, c 1930 to c 1939, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General)