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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847673411
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 220
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 20, 2010
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The Ghost Rider
Ismail Kadare
Jon Rothschild
David Bellos
David Bellos
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She 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 an Albanian village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?
Reviews of The Ghost Rider
'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.' Financial Times
Ismail Kadare
ISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. He studied in Tirana and Moscow, returning to Albania in 1960 after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize.