The Ghost Rider
Ismail Kadare author David Bellos translator Jon Rothschild translator David Bellos editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:20th May '10
£9.99
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A classic medieval mystery from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker Prize
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards. -- Ben Naparstek * * Financial Times * *
One of the most important voices in literature today. -- Alan Chadwick * * Metro * *
One of the great writers of our time. * * Scotsman * *
A master storyteller. * * John Carey * *
Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness. * * Los Angeles Times * *
Spooky and intellectually challenging. * * The Herald on Sunday * *
ISBN: 9781847673411
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
Weight: 154g
224 pages
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