A novelist who survived one of eastern Europe’s most vicious tyrannies and drew comparisons with Kafka and Orwell
Ismail Kadare digs deep into a fabled telephone conversation that may have sealed the fate of a dissident Russian poet
The Albanian novelist weaves the life of his mother with his country’s tumultuous past
A powerful fable of Albanian repression written in the 1970s appears in English for the first time
Angel Gurría-Quintana picks his books of the year so far
A compelling amalgam of realism, dreaminess and white-hot fury
