- Irish Americans, Travel, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general
In the mid 1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder, in hand. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey without ever writing them down.
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Prestige, cool, plot-driven and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ismail Kadare
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 197
- Publisher
- Alianza Editorial, Fayard, Distributed by Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, alb
- ISBN
- 9782213022505
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