Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Kadare, Ismail2015
Book
Total copies: 2
1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer in 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 won the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him, and protestors line the streets. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, 'Twilight of the Eastern Gods' is a fictionalised recreation of his time as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature.
Main title:
Twilight of the Eastern Gods / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos ; introduction by David Bellos.
Author:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2015.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
English translation of a French text originally published in Albanian.This translation originally published: 2014.
ISBN:
9780857866196 (pbk)0857866192 (pbk)
Dewey class:
GEN
LC class:
PG9621.K3
Language:
EnglishAlbanian
BRN:
278919