The Siege (Kadare novel)

The Siege
	First edition (Albanian)
Author	Ismail Kadare
Original title	Kështjella
Translator	David Bellos
Country	Albania
Language	Albanian
Genre	History
Publisher	, Canongate Books
Publication date	1970
Published in English	2008
Pages	304 328
ISBN	0-8021-4475-6

The Siege (also known as The Castle) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella. It tells about the Albanian-Ottoman war during the time of Skanderbeg. It was translated into French by Jusuf Vrioni and then from French into English by David Bellos under the title The Siege.^[1] Bellos in his afterword suggests that the book is patterned after Marin Barleti's work The Siege of Shkodra.^[2]^[3] The narrator of the novel is however not an Albanian fighting for Skanderbeg but a member of the besieging Ottoman army.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Gibson, Brian (23 January 2009). "New life for a novelist's early work". The Globe and Mail.
^ Kadare, Ismail (2008). The Siege. Canongate Books. pp. 324–328. ISBN 978-1-84767-185-1.
^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Ismail Kadare". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015.

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[Gibson-1] Gibson, Brian (23 January 2009). "New life for a novelist's early work". The Globe and Mail.

[2] Kadare, Ismail (2008). The Siege. Canongate Books. pp. 324–328. ISBN 978-1-84767-185-1.

[3] Liukkonen, Petri. "Ismail Kadare". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015.

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