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Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375700943

ISBN-139780375700941

eBay Product ID (ePID)1094924

Product Key Features

Original LanguageAlbanian

Book TitleThree-Arched Bridge

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicLiterary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorIsmail Kadare

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight7.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-053238

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal891.9/933

SynopsisIn 1377, the Balkan peninsula is a bridge between cultures. On one side lies the flotsam of the receding Byzantine empire, an unruly alliance whose peoples quarrel in half a dozen tongues; on the other, the encroaching hordes of Ottoman Turkey. On the banks of a river somewhere in between these powers, another bridge is rising. And in telling its story, Albania's greatest living writer creates what is at once a magnificently realized historical novel and a chilling parable of the new barbarism that has swept the Balkans. When mysterious acts of sabotage halt construction of the three-arched bridge, a man suspected of the crimes is discovered walled up in the foundation, with only his head protruding from the stone. Is his death meant to deter other saboteurs or to appease the spirits of the river? Does it fulfill an ancient prophecy or predict further bloodshed? Superbly written, resonant with menace and sorrow, "The Three-Arched Bridge is as powerful an evocation of a vanished world as "The Name of the,Rose. "A vivid, macabre and wise novel, set in the 14th century, when the author's Albanian homeland was suffering disruptions that suggest the Balkans of today." - "The New York Times Book Review "One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language." -"Wall Street Journal "Kadare's prose glimmers with the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review

LC Classification NumberPG9621.K3U713 1998