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Elegy for Kosovo
June 28, 1389: Six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for the repression of the Albanian majority in Kosovo, there took place, on the Field of the Blackbirds, a battle shrouded in legend. A coalition of Serbs, Albanian Catholics, Bosnians, and Romanians confronted and were defeated by the invading Ottoman army of the Sultan Murad. This battle established the Muslim foothold in Europe and became the centerpiece of Serbian nationalist ideology, justifying the campaign of ethnic cleansing of Albanian Kosovars that the world witnessed with horror at the end of the past century.
In this eloquent and timely reflection on war, memory, and the destiny of two peoples, Ismail Kadare explores in fiction the legend and the consequences of that defeat. Elegy for Kosovo is a heartfelt yet clear-eyed lament for a land riven by hatreds as old as the Homeric epics and as young as the latest news broadcast.
Book Details
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing
- Publish Date: Feb 5th, 2013
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.00in - 5.00in - 0.50in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781611456974
- Categories: • Literary• Cultural Heritage• Political
About the Author
Kadare, Ismail: - Ismail Kadare is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, and is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. He is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. Translations of his novels have been published in more than forty countries. He divides his time between Paris, France, and Tirana, Albania.
Praise for this book
The shadow of the Kafka of The Castle and The Trial intersects his work . . . . Kadare is patently a world-class novelist and prose poet.
He has the gift of writing parables of great weight in the lightest of tones.
A courageous and accomplished storyteller who is simply one of the best novelists alive.
He has the gift ofwriting parables of great weight in the lightest of tones.
A courageous andaccomplished storyteller who is simply one of the best novelists alive.
The shadow of theKafka of The Castle and The Trial intersects his work . . . .Kadare is patently a world-class novelist and prose poet.