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The Concert

The Concert
Ismail Kadare Penguin Random House UK Non Fiction English Paperback 9780099560890
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Publishing Group : Penguin Random House
Pages : 448
Release Date : 17 October 2013
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It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. The Chinese intend to punish their interfering little ally discreetly. But is the Sino-Albanian axis about to come adrift? This is Kadare's surreal black comedy about the inner sanctums of political power and the mysterious causal chains that transform ordinary lives. Review His finest book isThe Concert an epic study of the Albanians when living under the thumb of their sole world ally the Chinese. It is half realism half Borgesian and the form and content jointly stun –IndependentThe Concert is a splendidly deep and serious novel that entirely transcends as it were its unremarkable outer garment Kadare's achievement is to dramatise truthfully throughout. This is a book to read and re-read –GuardianIt is Shakespearian in its sweep of history with its insertions of poetic and theatrical farce and its description of the contortions Albanians had to perform to survive Marxist doctrine –Sydney Morning HeraldThe Concert is among the richest most complex and most challenging works of his fictional cycle Kadare's achievement is to have found once again the set of tricks that create the illusion of real life on the printed page –Sydney Morning HeraldHe has been compared to Gogol Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare's is an original voice universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil –Independent on Sunday... See more

Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first 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.

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