Ismail Kadare

Book Reviews

• The Concert
  - a comedy of communist manners; the end of the Albania-China alliance
• The General of the Dead Army*
  - on a macabre quest in Albania
• The Palace of Dreams*
  - an Ottoman bureaucracy managing dreams
• The Pyramid
  - a parable of life under communism
• The Siege
  - a novel about an Ottoman army attacking an Albanian fortress
• Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
  - a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania

Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare's novels are only available in English via translation from French versions. There is more about this in an interview with translator David Bellos at the Complete Review.

The award of the 2005 Man Booker International prize may raise Kadare's profile.