The Siege

ISBN-13: 9780802144751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 328 str.

Ismail Kadare; David Bellos

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Ismail Kadare s The Siege dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the fifteenth century. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control over the citadel unfolds, Kadare s newest work opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires as well as the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the battlefield.
Kadare is a hugely respected novelist and a hero to his people, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. The Siege is a powerfully atmospheric . . . and vividly rendered (The Telegraph) novel of considerable cumulative power and resonance for our own times."