From the International Man Booker winner - a fever dream of a novel where love, jealousy and obsession collide
Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain.
Toys with the reader's mind in something of the same way Hoxha once played with Kadare and his fellow citizens.