The Fall of the Stone City

Author

Ismail Kadare

Original Work

The Fall of the Stone City

Translator

John Hodgson

Language

English

Year

2012

Publisher

Canongate Books

Country

United Kingdom

ISBN

9780857863331

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Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel, a reunion in the town square and a fateful dinner party that would transform twentieth-century Europe. A captivating novel of resistance in a dictatorship, and steeped in Albanian folklore, The Fall of the Stone City shows Kadare at the height of his powers.— Google Books