by Ismail Kadare · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429747546
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Crònica de la ciutat de pedra is an autobiographical novel narrated from the perspective of a child, whose voice reveals a world outside of history, in which superstitions and events are linked and mixed to give these memories a character of dreamlike reflection. In an old and stone city like this, capable of causing pain and wounds, it is not easy to be a child. Contact with the city can be cold and rude, like stone, like war. As a backdrop, the tragedy of World War II, a monster from which the little Albanian, protagonist of the story, knows how to defend himself as only creatures know how to do. For him, who does not yet know the madness of the great, everything takes on an appearance of play and discovery: the curfew, the runs to the air raid shelter...
Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, which made him famous internationally.
