Spring Flowers,Spring Frost
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As Spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers, unknown under the tyrannical ancien regime, strike up the National Bank. The ghastly Kanun, regulator of medieval Albania's blood vendettas, is dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And the ultraexplosive secrets of the state secrets, rumoured to be buried in the area, are threatening to flood the entire nation. As the dreamy painter Mark Gurabardhi struggles to complete a portrait of the iceberg that struck the Titanic, he finds his quiet life disturbed by ancient love and modern barbarism, by the renaissance of Brezhnev and Oedipus, and by the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new found freedom.
Author: Kadare, Ismail
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Published: 2002, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
As Spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers, unknown under the tyrannical ancien regime, strike up the National Bank. The ghastly Kanun, regulator of medieval Albania's blood vendettas, is dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And the ultraexplosive secrets of the state secrets, rumoured to be buried in the area, are threatening to flood the entire nation. As the dreamy painter Mark Gurabardhi struggles to complete a portrait of the iceberg that struck the Titanic, he finds his quiet life disturbed by ancient love and modern barbarism, by the renaissance of Brezhnev and Oedipus, and by the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new found freedom.
Spring Flowers,Spring Frost