The file on H / Ismail Kadare ; translated by David Bellos ; from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni.

London : Vintage, 2006.

169 p. ; 20 cm.

This translation originally published: London: Harvill, 1997.

Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages. Here two Irish-American scholars study the tradition of oral poetry, to elucidate the strange commerce between memory and forgetting. They realize only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest.

9780099497196 (pbk)

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