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Edition 9 (2019)

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Ismail Kadare いすまいる・かだれ Winner

After the Second World War, a foreign general and a priest travel through Albania to recover the bones of fallen soldiers. Their mission becomes an allegory of war memory, guilt, humiliation, and the persistence of violence after battle has ended.

What is unearthed is not only bone, but memory and hostility left by war.

272 pages
memory of warallegoryAlbaniarecovering remainsguilt and loss