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Kadare's spare novel recalls a world now unfamiliar to many: the Soviet Union during the Krushchev era. The septuagenarian author, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, was a promising poet in his native Albania as a young man, which won him a prestigious place at the Gorky Institute for World Literature in Moscow. This novel, written mostly during that period, records Kadare's time studying with the stars of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More