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Reviewed on December 15, 2008
Kadare's 1970 work, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize and a perennial Nobel prize candidate, tells the story of an Albanian citadel under siege by the Ottoman army in the 15th century. Drawing on Albanian history and folklore as well as the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Kadare weaves a resonant tapestry of war that evokes battlefield dra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More