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- Title Chronicle in Stone
- Author Ismail Kadare
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Can Ed
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Canada, Toronto
- Date September 11, 2007
- ISBN 9780385665216 / 0385665210
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Chronicle in Stone: A Novel [Kronike ne Gur]
by Kadare, Ismail
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Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2007 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition. 23.5 x 15.5 cm]. Albania, that remote, unknown land, has found its voice in the novels of Kadare. In this one . he takes as his subject the shattering impact of World War II as that cataclysm is lived by a small, immensely sensitive boy. After centuries of bondage to the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, Albania falls to the invading Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians again, then the Nazi hordes. Amid floods, British bombing, the action of partisans, the boy undergoes another kind of turbulence, that of growing up, the inner and outer experience ringing strange harmonies. He responds to the beauty of unattainable women, to witchcraft, literature, and later, when he is evacuated from his "stone city" to peasant and village life. Now his existence will be "marvelous, terrifying and extraordinary." Instead, it is primitive, barbaric, a world where the severed arm of a British airman becomes a talisman…
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