Ismail Kadaré
Ismail Kadaré was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, Albania. He won the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and his novel The Successor was published in 2006.
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Fiction | Issue 91
The Great Wall
Ismail Kadare
‘What China loses by the sword it retakes by silk.’
A short story by Ismail Kadare, translated by David Bellos.