Издания и произведения

Është hera e parë që Kadareja del hapur përballë realitetit shqiptar, i zymtë dhe pesimist, për një tokë që e braktisën perënditë, për një mars, që, në të vërtetë, nuk është mars, për ca lule të rreme, të ftohta.

In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old reemerge in daily life. The marriage of a girl and a snake is not just a legend but a news item—a cyclical event that is as much part of the modern world as of the ancient one. Set against this Kafkaesque backdrop, a simple and sensual love story between…

From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way - you have no business here!' 'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'. As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.

Une petite ville du nord de l'Albanie à l'aube de l'an 2000. Dix ans après la chute du communisme, les gens sont encore traumatisés. Malgré tout, la vie va de l'avant, comme elle l'a toujours fait. Même dans le hold-up perpétré contre une banque, tout un chacun voit un signe de modernité, d'occidentalisation de la société. Quant au terrible Kanun, le Coutumier immémorial, il essaie de refaire surface au bout d'un demi-siècle d'hibernation, comme toutes choses interdites sous le communisme.D'autres épisodes singuliers surviennent. On se reprend à évoquer des événements énigmatiques advenus deux ans, deux siècles, deux millénaires auparavant…