Chronicle In Stone
- 6 Dec 2018
- 9781786894496
- £9.99
- 384 pp
- 129×198mm
- 15 Oct 2009
- 9781847678546
- £7.99
- 320 pp
In a few words
An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, introduced by James Wood
In a few words
An early masterpiece by the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize with an introduction by James Wood.
A great novel . . . A joyful, often comic piece of work
James Wood
New YorkerSophisticated and accomplished in its poetic prose and narrative deftness
John Updike
New YorkerA great novel . . . a joyful, often comic piece of work
James Wood
New YorkerSophisticated and accomplished in its poetic prose and narrative deftness
John Updike
New YorkerMore about
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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War.
A disturbing mix of tragedy and comedy, politics and sexuality, Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating masterpiece about what it means to grow up in a turbulent world.
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During the Second World War, a young boy witnesses his hometown in Albania fall to a series of invaders: first Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians once again and finally Nazi hordes. Amid floods and bombings, he undergoes another kind of turbulence – growing up.
Chronicle in Stone is an early masterpiece from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and one of the most significant European writers of the last fifty years.
A master storyteller
John Carey
Ismail Kadare has sometimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why
There are very few writers alive today with the depth, power and resonance of this remarkable novelist
Chronicle in Stone is stunning, the quintessential tale of war seen through a child's eyes
Susan Salter Reynolds
Los Angeles TimesA master storyteller
John Carey
Ismail Kadare has sometimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why
There are very few writers alive today with the depth, power and resonance of this remarkable novelist
Chronicle in Stone is stunning, the quintessential tale of war seen through a child's eyes
Susan Salter Reynolds
Los Angeles Times
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