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The Ghost Rider

The Ghost Rider

by David Bellos (Introduction), David Bellos (Translator), IsmailKadare (Author), David Bellos (Introduction), David Bellos (Translator), Ismail Kadare (Author), Jon Rothschild (Translator)

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Synopsis

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 220
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 20 May 2010
ISBN 10: 1847673414
ISBN 13: 9781847673411
Book Overview: A classic medieval mystery from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker Prize

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. -- Ben Naparstek * * Financial Times * *
One of the most important voices in literature today. -- Alan Chadwick * * 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 * *
Spooky and intellectually challenging. * * The Herald on Sunday * *
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 Lettras in Spain.