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Author: Ismail Kadare

📘 Doruntine by Ismail Kadare

The brother that has been dead for years brought his sister home from a faraway land.

First publish date: 1988

Authors: Ismail Kadare

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The Palace of Dreams is a political novel set in an Albanian empire where the state collects, sorts, and interprets the dreams of its citizens to uncover the "master-dreams" that guide the nation’s destiny.

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📘 The Three-arched Bridge

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A mysterious bridge linking the Balkans to Europe repeatedly collapses, stirring local legends and conspiracies that threaten the town’s peace, forcing the authorities to find a chilling solution.

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📘 When We Were Orphans

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Detective Christopher Banks, celebrated in London, is haunted by the disappearance of his parents in Shanghai as a child. His search for truth unravels long‑forgotten memories, intertwining mystery and psychological insight across interwar Britain and China.

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📘 The General of the Dead Army

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This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare’s first novel. Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is dispatched to Albania to recover his country’s dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission and their conversations bring out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business, past and present, to suffering self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the people whose graves they are unearthing.

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📘 Broken April

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A venture into the strange (to us) world of the Albanian mountains, where the iron dictates of the "kanun", or blood feud, wrench apart the lives and peace of generation after generation. Although the protagonist is Gjorg, a young mountain man who, as of the first page of the novel, knows that by fulfilling the dictates of the kanun he will guarantee that his own life will end in one month, Kadare offers in addition a brutal portrait of the inhumanity of the Intellectual, in the person of Bessian...an academic to whom the blood and suffering of the peasants is the stuff of mythic and heroic beauty.

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📘 The Accident

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Set amid the aftermath of the Yugoslav War, 'The Accident' follows an intimate relationship that spirals into tragedy, echoing the broader regional conflicts.

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