Summary
In the battle for faith, is it liberation, or invasion?
The Ottoman Army, the most powerful the world had known by that time, lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colorful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be overcome.
Told partly through the personal narrative of one of the defenders, partly through the eyes of the Ottoman chronicler Mevla Çelebi, Ismail Kadare’s The Siege is a gripping narrative of a blood…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921351631 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921351632 |
| Author: | Ismail Kadare |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 338 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 446g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 154mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2015.
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