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The Fall of the Stone City
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Wikipedia article
'The Fall of the Stone City' is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.
Background
Kadare had previously written about his home city Gjirokastr in his earlier novels 'Chronicle in Stone' and 'A Question of Lunacy'.
Plot
Reception
Characterizing it as "a masterful recuperation" from Kadare's previous novel, 'The Accident', Peter Carty from 'The Independent' went on to describe it as "an outstanding feat of imagination delivered in inimitable style, alternating between the darkly elusive and the menacingly playful.".
See also
*Albanian literature
References
Category:2008 novels
Category:Novels by Ismail Kadare
Category:Novels set in Albania
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