Ismail Kadare

Broschiertes Buch

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

Beschreibung

One of the earliest novels from Man Booker International Prize-winner Ismail Kadare, in English for the first time

Autor

Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare was Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He died in 2024, aged 88. David Bellos is director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University and the author of Is That A Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation. He won the French-American Foundation's Translation Prize for his version of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual, and the Goncourt Prize for Biography for Georges Perec. A Life in Words. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels as well as works by Romain Gary, Georges Simenon, Daniel Anselme and Georges Perec.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9780857866196
• ISBN-10: 0857866192
• Artikelnr.: 42608338

Rezensionen

Ismail Kadare is this generation's Kafka Independent