A Girl in Exile

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Description

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee.Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book. As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication – to Linda B.‘Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing… executed with an elegant combination of horror, absurdity, indignation, and other-worldliness… A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work’ Independent

Additional information

Weight 0.14 kg
Dimensions 1.2 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

192

Publisher

Year Published

2017-3-30

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099593076

About The Author

Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020.

Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing… executed with an elegant combination of horror, absurdity, indignation, and other-worldliness… A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work

Other text

[Kadare] captures the paranoid nature of life under constant surveillance…and produces an ironic masterpiece

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