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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
	First edition
Author	Ismail Kadare
Original title	Lulet e Ftohta të marsit
Translator	David Bellos
Cover artist	Kazimir Malevich, Head of Peasant - 1932
Language	Albanian
Genre	novel
Publisher	Onufri Publishing House, The Harvill Press
Publication date	2000
Publication place	Albania
Published in English	2002
Pages	182
ISBN	978-0099449836

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Albanian: Lulet e ftohta të marsit, lit. 'Cold Flowers of March') is a 2000 novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare set in the 1990s when feuding and vendetta had returned to the country after the fall of the communist regime.^[1] The English translation by David Bellos was first published by The Harvill Press in 2002, and then by Vintage Books in 2003. It was translated not directly from Albanian, but from the French translation by Jusuf Vrioni (published by Fayard).

References

^ Boxall, Petert (2006). Boxall, Peter (ed.). 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1st ed.). New York: Universe. pp. 901. ISBN 978-0789313706. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is set in contemporary Albania and tells the story of Mark Gurabardhi, an artist who is struggling to live and work after the fall of his country's communist regime.

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[1] Boxall, Petert (2006). Boxall, Peter (ed.). 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1st ed.). New York: Universe. pp. 901. ISBN 978-0789313706. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is set in contemporary Albania and tells the story of Mark Gurabardhi, an artist who is struggling to live and work after the fall of his country's communist regime.

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