Chronicle in Stone (Canons)

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2007
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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare's young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town and his own innocence and sense of wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War. A disturbing mix of tragedy, comedy, politics and sexuality, Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating early masterpiece from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize.

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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare's young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town and his own innocence and sense of wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War. A disturbing mix of tragedy, comedy, politics and sexuality, Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating early masterpiece from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 03 May 2007
ISBN 10: 1841959081
ISBN 13: 9781841959085
Book Overview: An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the International Man Booker Prize.

Media Reviews

Chronicle in Stone is stunning, the quintessential tale of war seen through a child's eyes. -- Susan Salter Reynolds * * Los Angeles Times * *
Sophisticated and accomplished in its poetic prose and narrative deftness. -- John Updike * * New Yorker * *
A master storyteller -- John Carey
Writing like this is hard to stop quoting...It is musical not only in rhythms that survive in this deft...translation but in its most elemental perceptions. * * -Evan Eisenberg, The Nation * *
[Albania's] most remarkable export: the novels of Ismail Kadare. * * Ken Kalfus, The Village Voice Literary Supplement * *
Chronicle in Stone is epic in its simplicity; the history of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world. * * Michael Dregni, Minneapolis Star Tribune * *

Author Bio

ISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. He studied in Tirana and Moscow, returning to Albania in 1960 after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize. DAVID BELLOS, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.