
Gjorg is a young mountaineer who (much against his will) has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in accordance with the Code that regulates life in the Albanian highlands. A young couple on their honeymoon has come to this place to study its age-old customs-including the blood feud. In Broken April, Ismail Kadare intersects the ...
Paperback: 218 pages
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books (June 16, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1561310654
ISBN-13: 978-1561310654
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 362598
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The background of Broken Spring -- and for me its real subject -- is the blood feud between families in the mountains of northern Albania. During the centuries of Ottoman rule in the southern Balkans, there was no effective government in the mountain...
th Gjorg and the young couple with visions of an unending cycle of obligatory murder and the horrifying effects it has on their respective lives. "Dostoevskian in its dark vision". -Kirkus Reviews.