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Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?
Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat?
How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clouded in jealousy and mistrust?
Who wanted them dead?
This is the story of the last forty weeks of their lives - a fever dream where love and obsession collide.
Price: $18.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
February 7, 2023
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781847673404
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), FICTION / Historical / General, Fiction in translation
One of the most important voices in literature today.
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards.
A master storyteller.
— John Carey
One of the great writers of our time.
Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness.
The Accident cannot be put aide, but rickly teases the reader to try to understand more of the meaning of what, exactly, the cab driver glimpsed in his rear-view mirror.
Ismail Kadare has somtimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why.
A compelling performance...lean, calm and footsure, Kadare's writing keeps you reading.
— Phil Baker
harks back to spy mysteries of the Cold War era...Kadare teasingly guides us through the search for an elusive truth...played out against the power struggles of Europe's states.
one goes to him precisely for that quality of indeterminacy, which he uses to advance a very singular vision of the intractable murkiness of human affairs.
compelling
a deliberately mystifying book [with] a continental seriousness about it, a Milan Kundera-like quality about its very un-English mixture of sex and political history.
compulsive and unnerving...a provocative exploration of the sinister underside of human relations.
— Mary Fitzgerald
In John Hodgson's translation, Kadare's prose retains its elusive elegance
— Jane Shilling
There are books which seem less the second-time round; Kadare's seem more...one can relish his mastery of tone and the tireless probing intelligence of narrative.
— Allan Massie
Beautifully told in sparce, simple prose.
Toys with the reader's mind in something of the same way Hoxha once played with Kadare and his fellow citizens.
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards.
A master storyteller.
— John Carey
One of the great writers of our time.
Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness.
The Accident cannot be put aide, but rickly teases the reader to try to understand more of the meaning of what, exactly, the cab driver glimpsed in his rear-view mirror.
Ismail Kadare has somtimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why.
A compelling performance...lean, calm and footsure, Kadare's writing keeps you reading.
— Phil Baker
harks back to spy mysteries of the Cold War era...Kadare teasingly guides us through the search for an elusive truth...played out against the power struggles of Europe's states.
one goes to him precisely for that quality of indeterminacy, which he uses to advance a very singular vision of the intractable murkiness of human affairs.
compelling
a deliberately mystifying book [with] a continental seriousness about it, a Milan Kundera-like quality about its very un-English mixture of sex and political history.
compulsive and unnerving...a provocative exploration of the sinister underside of human relations.
— Mary Fitzgerald
In John Hodgson's translation, Kadare's prose retains its elusive elegance
— Jane Shilling
There are books which seem less the second-time round; Kadare's seem more...one can relish his mastery of tone and the tireless probing intelligence of narrative.
— Allan Massie
Beautifully told in sparce, simple prose.
Toys with the reader's mind in something of the same way Hoxha once played with Kadare and his fellow citizens.
Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He currently lives in Paris, France.