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The Accident

The Accident

by IsmailKadare (Author), Ismail Kadare (Author), John Hodgson (Translator)

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    Hardcover 2010

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Synopsis

On the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; he only says that the mysterious couple in the back seat seemed to be about to kiss ...Set against the tumultuous backdrop of war and its aftermath in the Balkans, The Accident intimately documents an affair between two people caught in each other's webs. The investigation into their deaths uncovers a mutually destructive obsession that mirrors the conflicts of the region. A destabilising mixture of vivid hallucination and cold reality, Ismail Kadare's new novel is a bold and fascinating departure.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 263
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 19 Aug 2010
ISBN 10: 1847673392
ISBN 13: 9781847673398

Media Reviews
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards. * * Financial Times * *
One of the most important voices in literature today. * * Metro * *
One of the great writers of our time. * * Scotsman * *
A master storyteller. -- John Carey
Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness. * * Los Angeles Times * *
Author Bio
Born in 1936, ISMAIL KADARE is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact.' He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain.