Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.
<i>The</i> <i>Siege</i> is a compelling tale of the savagery and uncertainty of war, and a brilliant historical novel by one of the world's greatest living writers
- Simon Sebag Montefiore,
Great books, books that last, are shape-shifting books. <i> The Siege</i> is about what it is about - a siege in the fifteenth century. It is also a universal evocation of human violence
* Sunday Times *
A rallying cry to people besieged by the forces of tyranny
- Alice Fordham, * The Times *
<i>The Siege</i> is more relevant and powerful than ever . . . Kadare's early novel is stunning. The full panoply of the Ottoman's multi-ethnic empire is vividly rendered
- Heather McRobie, * Daily Telgraph *
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards
- Ben Naparstek, * Financial Times *
A tale steeped in blood, a snapshot of a centuries-long conflict, but at the same time Kadare's realism and lively sense of irony give it a modern twist
- Adam Lively, * Sunday Times *
The urgent gestures towards something that's not quite said somehow make the story linger in the mind long after the regime in which <i>The Siege</i> was written went the way of the empire it dreams back to life
- Christopher Taylor, * Guardian *
It is Kadare's great achievement to create individuals who are at the same time archetypes . . . Powerfully atmospheric . . . Fascinating
- Jane Jakeman, * Times Literary Supplement *
A story that is both stirring at a human level and steeped in historical symbolism . . . A vast and varied cast is expertly marshalled by a writer who is increasingly enjoying a worldwide reputation
- Sally Cousins, * Sunday Telegraph *
Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness
* Los Angeles Times *
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.