Description
| Product ID: | 9780857866196 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Twilight of the Eastern Gods |
| Authors: | Author: Ismail Kadare, David Bellos |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating One of the earliest novels from Man Booker International Prize-winner Ismail Kadare, in English for the first time 1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is 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 earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous? |
| Imprint Name: | Canongate Books |
| Publisher Name: | Canongate Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-08-06 |
