- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446433454
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 448
The Concert
- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446433454
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 448
His finest book is The Concert, an epic study of the Albanians when living under the thumb of their sole world ally, the Chinese. It is half realism, half Borgesian, and the form and content jointly stun
Independent
It is Shakespearian in its sweep of history with its insertions of poetic and theatrical farce and its description of the contortions Albanians had to perform to survive Marxist doctrine
Sydney Morning Herald
He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare’s is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil
Independent on Sunday
The Concert is a splendidly deep and serious novel that entirely transcends, as it were, its unremarkable outer garment… Kadare's achievement is to dramatise truthfully throughout. This is a book to read and re-read
Guardian
The Concert is among the richest, most complex and most challenging works of his fictional cycle… Kadare's achievement is to have found once again the set of tricks that create the illusion of real life on the printed page
Sydney Morning Herald