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.
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.