Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Kadare, Ismail2014
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1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer in woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has won the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him, and protestors line the streets. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, 'Twilight of the Eastern Gods' is a fictionalised recreation of his time as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature.
Main title:
Twilight of the Eastern Gods / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos ; introduction by David Bellos.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2014.
Collation:
xiii, 192 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
English translation of a French text originally published in Albanian.
ISBN:
9780857860101 (hbk)
Dewey class:
891.9913
Language:
EnglishAlbanian
BRN:
331257