The Fall of the Stone City
Albanian fiction novel by Ismail Kadare
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The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e gabuar) is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo[1] the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.[2]
Background
Kadare had previously written about his home city Gjirokastër in his earlier novels Chronicle in Stone and A Question of Lunacy.[3]
Plot
Reception
Characterizing it as "a masterful recuperation" from Kadare's previous novel, The Accident, Peter Carty from The Independent went on to describe it as "an outstanding feat of imagination delivered in inimitable style, alternating between the darkly elusive and the menacingly playful.".[4]
See also
- Albanian literature
References
- ^ Kurti, Sunita (22 December 2009). "Kadare, fitues i çmimit "Rexhai Surroi" për roman". Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ Flood, Alison (11 April 2013). "Independent foreign fiction prize 2013 shortlist announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ Isufaj, Viola; Jakllari, Adem (2012). Letërsia me zgjedhje të detyruar 12. Tirana: Albas. p. 6. ISBN 978-9928-02-427-5.
- ^ Carty, Peter. "Truly, the dinner party from hell". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
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Works by Ismail Kadare
- The General of the Dead Army (1963)
- The Siege (1970)
- Chronicle in Stone (1971)
- The Great Winter (1977)
- Twilight of the Eastern Gods (1978)
- The Traitor's Niche (1978)
- The Three-Arched Bridge (1978)
- Broken April (1980)
- The Ghost Rider (1980)
- The File on H. (1981)
- The Palace of Dreams (1981)
- The Concert (1988)
- The Blinding Order (1991)
- The Pyramid (1992)
- Spiritus (1996)
- Elegy for Kosovo (1998)
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000)
- Agamemnon's Daughter (2003)
- The Successor (2003)
- The Fall of the Stone City (2008)
- A Girl in Exile (2009)
- The Doll (2015)