The Siege (Kadare novel)

The Siege
Albanian cover
Author Ismail Kadare
Original title Kështjella
Translator david Bellos
Country Albania
Language Albanian
Genre History
Publisher Sh.B. Naim Frashëri
Publication date
1970
Pages Albania 304 United States 328
ISBN 0-8021-4475-6

The Siege (also known as The Castle) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella. It tells about the Albanian-Ottoman war during the time of Skanderbeg. It was translated into French by Jusuf Vrioni and then from French into English by David Bellos under the title The Siege. Bellos in his afterword suggests that the book is patterned after Main Barleti's work The Siege of Shkodra.[1][2]

References

  1. Kadare, Ismail (2008). The Siege. Canongate Books. pp. 324–328. ISBN 978-1-84767-185-1.
  2. Liukkonen, Petri. "Ismail Kadare". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/8/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.