The Siege (Kadare novel)
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| Author | Ismail Kadare |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kështjella |
| Translator | David Bellos |
| Language | Albanian |
| Genre | History |
| Publisher | Sh.B. Naim Frashëri, Canongate Books |
Publication date | 1970 |
| Publication place | Albania |
Published in English | 2008 |
| Pages |  304  328 |
| ISBN | 0-8021-4475-6 |
The Siege (also known as The Castle) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella. It tells about the Albanian-Ottoman war during the time of Skanderbeg. It was translated into French by Jusuf Vrioni and then from French into English by David Bellos under the title The Siege.[1] Bellos in his afterword suggests that the book is patterned after Marin Barleti's work The Siege of Shkodra.[2][3] The narrator of the novel is however not an Albanian but a member of the besieging Turkish army.[1]
References
- ^ a b Gibson, Brian (Jan 23, 2009). "New life for a novelist's early work". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Kadare, Ismail (2008). The Siege. Canongate Books. pp. 324–328. ISBN 978-1-84767-185-1.
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Ismail Kadare". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015.
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