Spring flowers, spring frost : a novel / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kadare, Ismail.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bellos, David.

Standardized Title:

Lulet e ftohta të marsit. English

Language:

Albanian

English

French

Subjects (All):

History.

Albania.

Albania--History--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

182 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First North American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Arcade Pub., 2002.

Summary:

In a town at the foot of the northern Highlands, life goes on as always, but people are in a state of shock: a bank has been robbed, a sure sign of the Westernization of this backward Balkan land. Meanwhile, other strange events -- such as the marriage of a girl and a snake -- confirm that ancient legends still prevail. People are flocking from far and wide to search for a tunnel to the Secret State Archives, said to house records of crimes they may have committed. Some even claim the ghosts of former dictators Hoxha, Brezhnev, and Ulbricht -- not to mention Oedipus -- have been seen there.... Against this backdrop, a simple and sensual love story between a painter and a girl stands out as light against dark.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

155970635X

OCLC:

49225569