A Girl in Exile - Requiem for Linda B
Ismail Kadare
Translator John Hodgson
Publisher: Counterpoint
Summary
Author Ismail Kadare is often touted as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 2005 he won the inaugural International Man Booker prize A Girl in Exile is a book about learning to live with the dead, and with death, with shadows and with loss. It's about ghosts—about specters haunting people, places, states and psyches. From The Guardian: "Kadare is a writer who excels in the cataloguing of human errors and horrors, in a style and in forms that one might rightly describe as synthesised. Born in Albania, and having lived in Paris for many years, he is one of those rare writers of international reputation who has managed to avoid the pitfalls and indulgences of bland, postmodern, transcultural 'world literature'"