{"product_id":"a-girl-in-exile-isbn-9781640091634","title":"A Girl in Exile","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare’s novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti–individualist system.” \u003ci\u003e—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDuring the bureaucratic machinery of Albania’s 1945–1991 dictatorship, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl—Linda B.—has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe soon learns that Linda’s family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . \u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, published in Albanian in 2009, may rekindle the worldwide hopes.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Kadare to be the best writer at work today who remembers—almost aggressively so, refusing to forget—European totalitarianism.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e’s Editors’ Choice\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and The Millions\u003cbr\u003e1 of 19 Translated Books to Add to Your Reading List This Summer (Signature Reads)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him . . . \u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, published in Albanian in 2009, may rekindle the worldwide hopes.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors’ Choice)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kadare’s mellifluous fever dream is a portrait of madness: the madness of the Stalinist state and the madness of men and women in the clamp of the state’s machinations . . . At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare’s novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti–individualist system.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is the gripping account of a playwright’s tragic struggle with the effects of his creative work, as understood through political upheaval, narrative interchangeability, and a magnetic relationship . . . Beautifully, the text addresses the cruelties of dictatorship.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“While common sense says that no artist can overhaul a country’s literature singlehandedly, Kadare has done so . . . \u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a historic talent who is still at the peak of his power. It confirms Kadare to be the best writer at work today who remembers—almost aggressively so, refusing to forget—European totalitarianism. Kadare tackles Albania’s specific strangeness with a ferocious rigor that would feel scientific if it were not for the haunted, haunting humans he writes into being.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Republic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania’s dictatorship, this compelling novel evokes the paranoid nature of life and love under surveillance.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, The Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2018 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kadare structures the novel like a psychological detective yarn, but one with some serious existential heft . . . A strong study of the ease and banality of human duplicity.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, Most Anticipated: The Great 2018 Book Preview \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing . . . executed with an elegant combination of horror, absurdity, indignation, and other–worldliness . . . A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant novel that captures the horrors of a totalitarian regime.” —\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post–Gazette \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling amalgam of realism, dreaminess and elegiac, white–hot fury. Kadare communicates with awful immediacy the nature of tyranny and the accommodations that those subject to it must make—as Kadare himself had to do.” —John Banville, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The literature Kadare has produced in the face of obstacles lesser writers would find insuperable, is, genuinely, of world significance . . . Invites comparison with Milan Kundera's recent satire on Stalinism, \u003ci\u003eThe Festival of Insignificance\u003c\/i\u003e. Both writers are favourites, year–in, year–out for the Nobel prize. Kadare will not damage his prospects with \u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e.” —John Sutherland, \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Melodrama, tragedy and myth illuminate the relationship between individual and state in a fine novel from the great Albanian writer.” —\u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kadare is frequently mentioned as a Nobel contender, and his chances should only be enhanced by this odd and powerful novel.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Myth and dream, memory and repression, all converge as the novel illuminates the essence of art in totalitarian Albania. An author respected throughout Europe should reach a wider American readership with this subversive novel.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novel effectively conveys the era's drabness and repression, providing a timely sense of the constraints imposed by authoritarian regimes . . . A good treatment of repressive politics.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Comparisons to Kafka are inevitable, but there’s also some Joseph Heller here. Kadare successfully renders Big Brother . . . A poignant narrative about exile.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ismail Kadare is one of the most lauded writers–in–translation in the English language, certainly one of Europe’s most important writers, and virtually the singular representative of Albanian culture to the anglophone world . . . The novel is by turns a probing exploration of the strict censures on everyday life—from which coffee shop one drinks at to the friends and lovers one has and the art one makes—under a totalitarian regime, and by turns epic in its connections among the present of life under Hoxha in the 1980s and the ancient past of Western mythology and history.” —\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Kadare] captures the paranoid nature of life under constant surveillance . . . and produces an ironic masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Filled with striking images and conceits . . . a powerful Kafkaesque charge . . . Kadare's imaginative intelligence ensures that it is chilling and intriguing.” —Theo Tait, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Coolly ironic writing, which traverses ominous themes of censorship and state control . . . Kadare masterfully conjures an atmosphere of paranoia . . . This powerful novel is a monument.” —Francesca Wade, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, from internationally acclaimed Albanian author and perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ismail Kadare, is a powerful and complex tale of life in the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' . . . [A] striking exploration of love, art, paranoia, and the limits of freedom in a totalitarian state.” —\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Girl in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is both a timeless, ghostly love story, and a trenchant portrait of the artist in a totalitarian state.” —\u003ci\u003e4Columns \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsmail Kadare\u003c\/b\u003e 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, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2020. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Hodgson\u003c\/b\u003e studied at Cambridge and Newcastle and has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana. This is the sixth book by Ismail Kadare that he has translated.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299926233317,"sku":"NP9781640091634","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640091634.jpg?v=1767720492","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-girl-in-exile-isbn-9781640091634","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}