Twilight of the Eastern Gods

Ismail Kadare is this generation's Kafka * * Independent * *
Compelling . . .absorbing . . .deeply personal . . . With a new transation of Twilight of the Eastern Gods, Ismail Kadare is finally receiving the recognition he deserves * * New Statesman * *
Kadare writes . . . with a light of touch and with consummate literary skill. This is the work of a strange and mysterious master * * Sunday Business Post * *
One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language * * Wall Street Journal * *
Enigmatic and beguiling . . . pockmarked with brilliance * * The National * *
Fascinating . . . Twilight of the Eastern Gods is reflective of a culture of paranoia and suspicion, in which anyone who made a wrong move or uttered anything that might be deemed subversive could expect reprisals * * Herald * *
One of the world's greatest living writers -- Simon Sebag Montefiore
Like Coetzee's Youth . . . For its poetry, its pastiche and its tonic bitterness, this is a book that was worth redeeming . . . It smacks gorgeously of the bitchiness that pervaded Soviet literature * * The Times * *
Skilfully mixes the personal and the political . . . [Kadare is] a forceful example of how to function as a writer under communism * * Independent * *
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny . . . great writer, by any nation's standards * * Financial Times * *