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The Great Wall

Ismail Kadaré

Translated by David Bellos

‘What China loses by the sword it retakes by silk.’

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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Translated by David Bellos

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