by David Bellos (Translator), IsmailKadare (Author), JusefVriono (Translator)
In the mid-1930s, two Irish-American scholars arrive in a small town in Northern Albania to carry out research on the surviving tradition of spoken verse epics, recording the last of the wandering ballad-mongers. They hope to solve the mystery of Homer's authorship of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: 19 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 186046257X
ISBN 13: 9781860462573
Book Overview: A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past. /b>Translated by David Bellos i>from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vriono