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Spring flowers, spring frost : a novel / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos.
Van Pelt Library PG9621.K3 L8513 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kadare, Ismail.
- 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
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