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Kadare, Ismail

 
9781847673411: The Ghost Rider
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ISBN 10: 1847673414 ISBN 13: 9781847673411
Editorial: Canongate Books, 2010

Sinopsis

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman 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 has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

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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.

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'One of the most important voices in literature today.' Metro

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman 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, Konstanding has been dead for years. What follows is a chain of events that plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

'Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists.' Los Angeles Times

'Kadare's writing is a striking reminder that great literature does not depend on circumstances, but overcomes them.' Independent

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Editorial
Canongate Books
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1847673414
ISBN 13 
9781847673411
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Número de páginas
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9780385670883: [(The Ghost Rider)] [by: Ismail Kadare]

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ISBN 10:  0385670885 ISBN 13:  9780385670883
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