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A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.

A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.

Kadare, Ismail
Hodgson, John

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ISBN10: 1640091637
ISBN13: 9781640091634
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Jan 22 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical. --The Wall Street Journal

At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare's novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti-individualist system. --The Washington Post

During the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl--Linda B.--has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession.

He soon learns that Linda's family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B.

Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . A Girl in Exile, published in Albanian in 2009, may rekindle the worldwide hopes. --The New York Times Book Review

A Girl in Exile confirms Kadare to be the best writer at work today who remembers--almost aggressively so, refusing to forget--European totalitarianism. --The New Republic

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