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Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 328 pages. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2005. Ismail Kadare's The Siege dramatizes a fictional fifth century assault by the Ottoman Army on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control unfolds, Kadare's narrative opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires. His masterful prose brings to life the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the battlefield--as well as a dramatic view of those who command and those who fight and die. Hailed by The New Yorker as "Albania's most distinguished novelist," Kadare is a hero to his countrymen, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. Here, with this epic novel, he proves himself "an original voice, universal yet…
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- Title The Siege
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- Pages 338
- Publisher Penguin
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9781921351631
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