Three Elegies For Kosovo

Three Elegies For Kosovo

Softcover

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Description

In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since.

28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo.

In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century.

'An utterly captivating yarn: strange, vivid, ominous, macabre and wise' New York Times

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Contemporary
Format
Softcover
Pages
96
Price
13.00 €