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The Concert by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up -... -
The Pyramid by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more... -
The Siege by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31It is the fifteenth century and war looms. The people of Albania have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire and they know their fate is sealed. As they take refuge in a fortress in the... -
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After... -
The Palace Of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf VrioniAt the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen... -
The Accident Ismail Kadare 9781847673404
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Why 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... -
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Two 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... -
Chronicle In Stone by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and wonder are lost... -
A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73When 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... -
Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon's Daughter was written in Albania in the... -
The Successor Ismail Kadare 9781841958873
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14.Did he kill himself or was he murdered? This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As... -
The Doll by Ismail Kadare 9781784709327
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's... -
General Of The Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical... -
Three Elegies For Kosovo by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.7328 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... -
The Traitor's Niche Ismail Kadare 9781784873202
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the... -
A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 9781529920574
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024**'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first... -
The Ghost Rider Ismail Kadare 9781847673411
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a... -
Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.311958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its... -
The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend - a... -
The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare 9781640092020
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092020Author Ismail KadareFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Counterpoint LLCPublisher... -
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!''Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange... -
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RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Why 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... -
The Fall of the Stone City Ismail Kadare 9780857860125
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013.In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace... -
Essays On World Literature: Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Dante by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world... -
Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990 by Peter Morgan
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990About the AuthorPeter MorganBook InformationISBN 9780367602796Author Peter MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. by Ismail Kadare 9781640091634
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091634Author Ismail KadareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
Colloquial Albanian: The Complete Course for Beginners by 9781138949591
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £71.79Colloquial Albanian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Albanian as it is written and spoken today. Combining... -
Symbolism and Politics by Graeme Gill
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Symbolism and Politics is a timely intervention into ongoing debates around the function of political symbols in a historical period characterized by volatile electoral behaviour, fragmented... -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer... -
The End of Communist Rule in Albania: Political Change and The Role of The Student Movement Shinasi A. Rama 9781032089010
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Albanian Student Movement of 1990-1991. To date, there are no thorough studies of the first year of the post-Communist transition in Albania,... -
God'S Torment: Poems By Alain Bosquet by Alain Bosquet 9780821410912
Booksplease Price: £22.87Ohio University Press published a first volume of Alain Bosquet's work, Selected Poems, in 1973. Since then, the avant-garde and metaphysical poetry of Bosquet has become widely available to an... -
Slovenia: Evolving Loyalties by John K. Cox
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country's rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within... -
The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence by Anna di Lellio 9781843312451
Booksplease Price: £15.63This book makes the case for the independence of Kosova - the former province of 'old-Yugoslavia' and now temporarily a United Nations-led International protectorate - at a time in which... -
On Identity Amin Maalouf 9781860467295
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us... -
Dear Reader by Paul Fournel 9781782275220
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Old schoolpublisher meets e-reader: chaos ensuesThere's a lotof good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though -Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still... -
Mitra-Varuna - An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty Georges Dumezil 9781912808977
Booksplease Price: £25.08A classic text that develops one prong of Dumezil's tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign. Georges Dumezil's fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome,... -
Jacques Tati His Life & Art by David Bellos 9781860469244
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe,... -
Georges Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos 9781846554209
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec... -
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Harold B. Segel 9780231114042
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.93For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the... -
The Night Closes, the Sky Opens: 100 Years of Literary Exploration by Daniel Simon 9781632064134
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84Curated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be.From Nobel...