The Three-Arched Bridge

A vivid, macabre and wise novel * New York Times *
His ability to spin eerie parables out of a little-known national history makes his books an addictive pleasure -- Jonathan Romney * Independent on Sunday *
A compelling investigation into language and myth, politics and power, by the renowned, infinitely talented Albanian novelist * Booklist *
[Kadare] is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting * New York Times *
In Ismail Kadare's fictional worlds creation and destruction are entwined, and how he illuminates the human cost of their varied pairings is the source of his greatness as a writer * Chicago Tribune *
Little in the modern canon is more locally remote from us than the writing of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare, and not much is more universal in its reach… Kadare, who lived under the dictator Enver Hoxha until moving to France, is a supreme fictional interpreter of the psychology and physiognomy of oppression * New York Times *
A prolific and stylistically versatile author who has sought to explain his problematic country through massive political epics as well as in novellas that variously take shape as allegories, folk tales, magical autobiography or ancient Albanian history * Independent *
Kadare and Andric share a sense of incisive imagery, all too relevant, in which a Balkan bridge links present and future, at the sacrifice of humanity * Boston Globe *