The Fall of the Stone City
The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e gabuar) is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo[1] the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.[2]
 First edition cover showing Moche burial mask from Peru, A.D. 525–550. | |
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
|---|---|
| Original title | Darka e gabuar |
| Translator | John Hodgson |
| Country | Albania |
| Language | Albanian |
| Genre | historical fiction, political fiction |
| Publisher | Onufri |
Publication date | 2008 |
Published in English | 2013 |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | 978-0857860125 |
Background
Kadare had previously written about his home city Gjirokastër in his earlier novels Chronicle in Stone and A Question of Lunacy.[3]
Reception
Characterizing it as "a masterful recuperation" from Kadare's previous novel, The Accident, Peter Carty from The Independent went on to describe it as "an outstanding feat of imagination delivered in inimitable style, alternating between the darkly elusive and the menacingly playful.".[4]
See also
References
- Kurti, Sunita (22 December 2009). "Kadare, fitues i çmimit "Rexhai Surroi" për roman". Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- Flood, Alison (11 April 2013). "Independent foreign fiction prize 2013 shortlist announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- Isufaj, Viola; Jakllari, Adem (2012). Letërsia me zgjedhje të detyruar 12. Tirana: Albas. p. 6. ISBN 978-9928-02-427-5.
- Carty, Peter. "Truly, the dinner party from hell". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
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