Books: Don't disturb the fairies THE THREE-ARCHED BRIDGE by Ismail Kadare, Harvill pounds 9.99

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 9, 1998| Author: JOHN MURRAY | Copyright information

ISMAIL KADARE is Albania's best known writer, a novelist surely in the same league as two other Balkan literary giants, the Turk Yashar Kemal and the Bosnian Ivo Andric. Like them he is a prolific and stylistically versatile author who has sought to explain his problematic country through massive political epics as well as in novellas that variously take shape as allegories, folk tales, magical autobiography (Chronicle of Stone, Serpent's Tail) or ancient Albanian history. His last two books ...

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