Three Elegies For Kosovo
Formats & editions
- Published: 15 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446414163
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 96
The bridge is a foreboding, an omen, a threat. It is a bridge over which Asia will invade Europe and the future will invade the past. Kadare, an Albanian, has used the materials at hand to become one of Europe's great writers
Los Angeles Times
An utterly captivating yarn: strange, vivid, ominous, macabre and wise
New York Times
The main goal of these three fables ... is to transmit a message about freedom, in the sense that to write truthfully is to set something free. In this book Kadare has set Kosovo, the battle, the myth, free from the chains of untruth
London Review of Books