- Fiction, Social life and customs, Romance fiction, Translations into English
"In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands, life appears to go on as it always has, but people are in a state of shock. The robbery of a local bank is seen as a sign of modern times and of westernization in this backward Balkan land.
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Prestige, grave, open-ended and bleak.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ismail Kadare
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Arcade Pub., Onufri
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- alb, English
- ISBN
- 9781559706353
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