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A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. (Albanian: E penguara: Rekuiem për Linda B.) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare. [1] [2] [3] It has been described as "one of Kadare's best novels". [4] Originally published in Albanian in 2009, the English translation by John Hodgson came out in 2016. Footnotes.
Jan 1, 2009 · 903 ratings115 reviews. A Girl in Exile, first published in Albanian in 2009, is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship. While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee.
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Mar 24, 2016 · A Girl in Exile. Kindle Edition. When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators.
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Mar 19, 2016 · 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 spectres haunting people, places, states and psyches.
Feb 23, 2018 · In “A Girl in Exile,” a celebrated Albanian novelist tells a tale of love and death, and ghosts who transcend both.
It is a painful, sometimes comic mystery dedicated to unraveling why Linda B.—a girl on the cusp of womanhood living in forced internal exile with her once-royalist family in the rural reaches of Albania during the twilight of Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship—commits suicide.
Jan 9, 2018 · A GIRL IN EXILE. REQUIEM FOR LINDA B. by Ismail Kadare ; translated by John Hodgson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 9, 2018. Kadare ( Twilight of the Eastern Gods, 2015, etc.) subverts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice into a parable of totalitarianism.
