Description
Product ID: | 9780099560951 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Three Elegies For Kosovo |
Authors: | Author: Ismail Kadare, Peter Constantine |
Page Count: | 96 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation, Kosovo |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-05-05 |