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Ismail Kadare: The Accident (Canongate, £16.99)

Memories play tricks in the latest from the Albanian author.

Before Ismail Kadare emerged as a patently major writer a few years ago, even readers interested in looking beyond these shores would have been hard put to name an Albanian novelist or, for that matter, a single, salient fact about Albania.

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