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  1. Chronicle in Stone (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare, Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780857861818 - UTGIVEN: 201108

    In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare's young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town - and his own innocence and sense of wonder - are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War. A disturbing mix of tragedy, comedy, politics and[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  2. Agamemnon's Daughter (Pocket)

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    Ismail Kadare, David (TRN) Bellos, Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611458749 - UTGIVEN: 2013-10

    Psychologically incisive and impeccably crafted, "Agamemnon's Daughter" tells the crushing story of passion shattered by a heartless regime. Once again, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of oppression, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny. This collec[...]

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    från 162.00 kr
  3. Broken April (Storpocket)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780099449874 - UTGIVEN: 200311

    From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albanian mountains, requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and in turn to become an outcast to be hunted down by the new victim's family.[...]

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    från 108.00 kr
  4. Palace of Dreams (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780099518273 - UTGIVEN: 200812

    At the heart of the Sultan's vast but fragile empire stands the Palace of Dreams, where an entire nation's consciousness is tapped into and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind. This book talks about the thought-police who have been the most effective instrum[...]

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    från 100.00 kr
  5. The Three Arched Bridge (Storpocket)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780099560883 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09

    When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend - a woman immured in a castle wall to prevent it from falling. Some say the bridge is being damaged by l[...]

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    från 192.00 kr
  6. The Pyramid (Storpocket)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780099560920 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09

    When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control - they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyram[...]

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    från 121.00 kr
  7. Three Elegies for Kosovo (Storpocket)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780099560951 - UTGIVEN: 201105

    It's 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slob[...]

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    från 94.00 kr
  8. The Fall of the Stone City (Inbunden)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780802120687 - UTGIVEN: 2013-01

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    från 200.00 kr
  9. The Accident (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780802145512 - UTGIVEN: 2011-11

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    från 123.00 kr
  10. The Fall of the Stone City (Inbunden)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9780857860118 - UTGIVEN: 201208

    In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. It is the first step in a carefully planned invasion. But once at the mouth of the city, the troops are taken aback by a surprising act of rebellion that leaves the citizens fearful of a bloody counter-attack. [...]

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    från 167.00 kr
  11. Doruntine (Pocket)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781561310326 - UTGIVEN: 1991-09

    In a medieval Albanian town, two women, mother and daughter, are on their deathbed. Three years have passed since Doruntine married a foreigner and went off with him to his home far to the west in Bohemia. During those years there had been no communication with her. War broke out, and of her nine br[...]

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    från 119.00 kr
  12. Broken April (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781561310654 - UTGIVEN: 1998-06

    Two destinies intersect in Broken April. The first is that of Gjor, a young mountaineer who (much against his will) has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the provisions of the Code that regulates life in the high[...]

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    från 141.00 kr
  13. The Palace of Dreams (Inbunden)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611453270 - UTGIVEN: 2011-10

    The mysterious Palace of Dreams stands at the heart of a vast but fragile Balkan empire. Inside, workers assiduously sift, sort, classify, and ultimately interpret the dreams of the empire's citizens. The workers search out Master-Dreams that will provide clues to the destiny of the empire and its S[...]

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    från 251.00 kr
  14. The General of the Dead Army (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611454185 - UTGIVEN: 201204

    The General of the Dead Army is a moving and timely meditation on war and its consequences by the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, available again in paperback. Twenty years after World War II, an Italian general armed with maps, measurements, and dental records is sent to Alb[...]

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    från 144.00 kr
  15. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611454734 - UTGIVEN: 2012-04

    In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome "Kanun" mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Myster[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  16. Elegy for Kosovo (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611456974 - UTGIVEN: 201302

    June 28, 1389: Six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for the repression of the Albanian majority in Kosovo, there took place, on the Field of the Blackbirds, a battle shrouded in legend. A coalition of Serbs, Albanian Catholics, Bosnians, and Romanians confronted and were[...]

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    från 128.00 kr
  17. The Pyramid (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611458008 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05

    Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC. The young pharaoh Cheops wants to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox, designed to appease the masses by oppressing them. It is a symbol o[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  18. The Succesor (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781611458077 - UTGIVEN: 201305

    A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another's, was Mehmet Shehu, the presum[...]

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    från 136.00 kr
  19. The Palace of Dreams (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781628723236 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

    The mysterious palace of dreams stands at the heart of a vast empire. Inside, workers sift, sort, and interpret the dreams the empire's citizens. They search out Master-Dreams that will provide clues to the destiny of the empire and its Sultan.
    Mark-Alem, scion of a noble family that has provide[...]

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    från 127.00 kr
  20. Successor (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781841958873 - UTGIVEN: 200701

    The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14. Did he kill himself or was he murdered? As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts.[...]

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    från 99.00 kr
  21. Chronicle in Stone (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781841959085 - UTGIVEN: 2007-05

    In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, the author's young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town and his own innocence and sense of wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War. This title covers a mix of tragedy, comedy, polit[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  22. Siege (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781847671226 - UTGIVEN: 2009-03

    Tells the story of the weeks and months that follow - of the exhilaration and despair of the battlefield, the constantly shifting strategies of war, and those whose lives are held in balance, from the Pasha himself to the technicians, artillerymen, astrologer, blind poet and harem of women that acco[...]

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    från 108.00 kr
  23. The Accident (Häftad)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781847673404 - UTGIVEN: 2011-05

    Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna? Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat? How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clouded in jealousy and mistrust? Who wanted them d[...]

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    från 126.00 kr
  24. The Ghost Rider (Pocket)

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    Ismail Kadare, David Bellos, Jon Rothschild

    ISBN: 9781847673411 - UTGIVEN: 201105

    An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin ha[...]

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    från 135.00 kr
  25. Three-Arched Bridge (Pocket)

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    Ismail Kadare

    ISBN: 9781860464638 - UTGIVEN: 1998-05

    This novel serves as a parable on the conflicts that ravage the Balkan states, with the monk Gjon, 14th-century chronicler, revealing the story behind the building of a bridge.[...]

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    från 137.00 kr