A Girl in Exile

First edition (publ. Onufri)
Cover art: detail from Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman by Botticelli, 1480s
AuthorIsmail Kadare
Original titleE penguara: Rekuiem për Linda B.
TranslatorJohn Hodgson
Cover artistBotticelli
LanguageAlbanian
Publication date
2009
Publication placeAlbania
Published in English
2016
Pages192

A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. (Albanian: E penguara: Rekuiem për Linda B., lit. 'Hindered: Requiem for Linda B.') is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare.[1][2][3] It has been described as "one of Kadare's best novels".[4]

Originally published in Albanian in 2009, the English translation by John Hodgson came out in 2016.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Caroline Moore, A Girl in Exile: Ismail Kadare’s novel is full of absence, The Spectator, 26 March 2016.
  2. ^ A Girl in Exile, by Ismail Kadare, Financial Times, 2016.
  3. ^ Adam Kirsch, The haunted Albania of Ismail Kadare’s A Girl in Exile, New Statesman, 8 April 2016
  4. ^ Alberto Manguel, "The evil of the gods" (review of 'A Girl in Exile'), Times Literary Supplement, 20 May 2016, p. 22.


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