A Girl in Exile

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa''s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book. As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication - to Linda B. ''Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing... executed with an elegant combination of horror, absurdity, indignation, and other-worldliness... A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work'' Independent

Product details

• Authors: Ismail Kadare, Kadare Ismail
• Assisted by: John Hodgson (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780099593072
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959307-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Political, Fiction in translation, Politics and government, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary