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Исмаиль Кадарэ - албанский прозаик и поэт. Известен во всем мире как выдающийся писатель современности. Кавалер ордена Почетного легиона, лауреат премии принца Астурийского, первый лауреат Международной Букеровской премии. Таинственный Дворец Сновидений находится в центре огромной империи. Его служащие веками заняты сбором и разгадыванием снов каждого из подданных султана. Они должны отыскать ниспосланное высшими силами предзнаменование, которое станет ключом к судьбе правителя. Отпрыск...

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed minarets and tens of thousands of men fill the plain below. From this moment on, the world is waiting to hear that the fortress has fallen. The Siege tells the enthralling story of the weeks...

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up – couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. The Chinese intend to punish their interfering little ally discreetly. But is the Sino-Albanian axis about to come adrift? This is Kadare’s surreal black comedy about the inner sanctums of political power and the...

From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the...

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government... The Palace of Dreams is Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny and oppression, and was banned upon...

A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past. Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business, past and present, to suffering self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives...

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo. In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in...

At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital - a task he relishes and performs with fervour. But as he travels through obscure and impoverished territories, he makes money from illicit side-shows, offering villagers the spectacle of death. The head of the rebellious Albanian governor...

When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control - they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its...

Young Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's imposing house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon. Yet despite her youthful nature, she is not without her own enigmas. Most of all, she fears that her intellectual, radical son will exchange her for a superior mother when he becomes a famous writer. From the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize, this is a disarming story of home and...

Роман «Генерал армии мертвых» — это произведение о минувшей мировой войне, несмотря на то, что действие развертывается много позже, в мирное время. Два официальных представителя неназванной страны (но, несомненно, Италии, на сей счет у читателя не остается никаких сомнений) прибывают в Тирану с печальной миссией: посетить места захоронений своих солдат и с помощью выделенных албанскими властями рабочих произвести эксгумацию с тем, чтобы вернуть останки армии на родину… Этот роман албанского...

Исторический сюжет в сочетании с современной лаконичной манерой письма придает особую привлекательность произведениям Исмаиля Кадарэ — албанского писателя, многократного претендента на Нобелевскую премию. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя новелла характерна для Кадарэ: она о волнующей не только его теме Востока и Запада, об устремлении из мира несвободы в свободный мир. Как отмечал один из французских критиков, Кадарэ «с необычайной легкостью обращается к истории, находя в ней множество созвучий с...

Исмаил Кадарэ (р. 1936) — современный албанский писатель. Главная тема лирики Кадарэ — духовный мир современника, молодого человека, активного строителя нового общества. Читателя привлекает внутреннее богатство лирического героя поэзии Кадарэ, разнообразие его мыслей, полнота его чувств, стремление изобразить новизну его мироощущения новыми поэтическими средствами. Кадарэ — по преимуществу лирик. Ему удаются стихи, передающие глубокие и сложные чувства человека наших дней. Кадарэ любит...