The Fall of the Stone City

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The Fall of the Stone City
File:The Fall of the Stone City.jpg
First edition cover showing Moche burial mask from Peru, A.D. 525–550.
Author Ismail Kadare
Original title Darka e gabuar
Translator John Hodgson
Country Albania
Language Albanian
Genre historical fiction, political fiction
Publisher Onufri
Publication date
 2008
Published in English
 2013
Pages 176
ISBN 978-0857860125

The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e gabuar) is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo[1] the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.[2]

Background

Kadare had previously written about his home city Gjirokastër in his earlier novels Chronicle in Stone and A Question of Lunacy.[3]

Plot

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Reception

Characterizing it as "a masterful recuperation" from Kadare's previous novel, The Accident, Peter Carty from The Independent went on to describe it as "an outstanding feat of imagination delivered in inimitable style, alternating between the darkly elusive and the menacingly playful.".[4]

See also

References

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