Book cover for The Concert by Ismail Kadare

The Concert

Ismail Kadare
2013 Released
443 Pages
7-10 Hours
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Arcade PublishingISBN 9781611458725
Translated by Barbara Bray
China is somehow involved with the increasingly desperate situation in Albania, but no one knows the extent of its secret alliances, political levers, and economic control. Skënder Bermema is sent to China on a fact-finding mission, and is confronted with the reality of Mao's China, a nation intent on crushing individuality, independence, and creativity.

The intriguing promise of a mysterious gala concert is where the hand-picked foreign invitees expect to be able to decipher in the colors, figures, and gestures of the Chinese actors a message about China's intentions. And no matter what any of them may be expecting, the message is shocking beyond their wildest imaginations.

Ismail Kadare

Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare was Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He died in 2024, aged 88.

More by Ismail Kadare

A Girl in Exile
The Traitor's Niche
The Palace of Dreams
Chronicle in Stone
The Fall of the Stone City
The Siege
A Dictator Calls
The File on H.
The Ghost Rider
The Doll
The Succesor
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Barbara Bray

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