Broken April
by Ismail Kadare
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Author: Ismail KadareEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-25
ISBN: 1561310654
Number of pages: 248
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
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- ISBN13: 9781561310654
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Book Review: An atmospheric journey in the land of the bloodfeud. Albania
Summary: 3 Stars
Ismail Kadare is a Southern Albanian, and in Broken April his Alter Ego journeys into Northern Albania with his newly-wed for a testing honeymoon among the Ghegs who still live by the code of the Kanun. The Kanun places honour and hospitality above all else and and an insult to another man can lead to a bloodfeud between the respective families. Kadare follows one man's involvement as he does his duty by killing a man who killed his brother. In doing so, he forfeits his own life and is granted only 30 days of protection by the laws of the kanun. 'Not enough to see out the month of April'. I enjoyed my first Kadare book. He creates very well the atmosphere of Ghegeria, where the kanun enjoys soveriegnty over the laws of King Zog in Tirana. The haunting doubts and silent musings of its characters gives it a Kafkaesque quality at times, although it left me feeling rather empty and unsatisfied. Perhaps any Western reader is going to to leave a book which deals with such alien ethics puzzled and slightly fazed. Have they just read a fable, novel or true story?
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