Broken April

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From the moment that Gjorg s brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother s murderer and then in turn be hunted down After shooting his brother s killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days grace not enough to see out the month of April.Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive The bride s heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these civilised strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta. New Read Broken April [ by ] Ismail Kadare [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr A to Z around the world A is for Albania It took a while for me to write this review because I wanted to say quite a lot and I did not know where to start or how to organize my thoughts still don t Real life interference did not help either This is going to be long so I made some headlines for easier navigation The Author and the novel in shortIsmail Kadare is probably the best know Albanian writer and one of the best resources to learn about the country s tumultuous past, culture and ment A to Z around the world A is for Albania It took a while for me to write this review because I wanted to say quite a lot and I did not know where to start or how to organize my thoughts still don t Real life interference did not help either This is going to be long so I made some headlines for easier navigation The Author and the novel in shortIsmail Kadare is probably the best know Albanian writer and one of the best resources to learn about the country s tumultuous past, culture and mental...This is a strange book When I lived in eastern Europe, I was told there were two sorts of Eastern European countries, those which were highly developed and industrialized Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and those which were not Bulgaria, Romania as well as those which were a mix of the two Yugoslavia, Soviet Union but no one knew anything about Albania Reading this book, it s like the land that time forgot because you re never quite sure where you are in history As it turns out, it s A This is a strange book When I lived in eastern Europe, I was told there were two sorts of Eastern European countries, those which were highly developed and industrializ...Broken April is a haunting story with an out of time charm There are not many novels around with such a simple and yet powerfully evocative style More than the plot in itself what counts here is the atmosphere Kadare is able to recreate.I actually perceived the mist and the cold as well as the brightless nights and the wind swept landscapes where the novel takes place with an uncommon intensity.As a reader who gets easily distracted, Broken April meant an unusual business to me this book Broken April is a haunting story with an out of time charm There are not many novels around with such a simple and yet powerfully evocative style More than the plot in itself what counts here is the atmosphere Kadare is able to recreate.I actually perceived the mist and the cold as we...Una novela muy interesante, con unos personajes muy bien trabajados y que trata un tema que hace que la lectura sea muy amena el Kanun.When reading this book I recalled Blindness of Saramago Broken April is haunting, dark, disturbing and yet strangely attractive The narration is so matter of fact yet the chill of death is looming in every word It is the story of the relentless Kanunholding sway over the Albanian mountainsmen The currency of the Kanun is death and so death seems as ever present as money is in our society There is always a sense of weirdness and unreality in the way the Mountainsmen deal with death, reveng When reading this book I recalled Blindness of Saramago Broken April is haunting, dark, disturbing and yet strangely attractive The narration is so matter of fact yet the chill of death is looming in every word It is the story of the relentless ...Broken April is a historical fiction novel based on true facts about Albania s past However, I thought a particular plot device, an ancient book of laws and social s which is the source of the problems that the main character, Gjorg Berisha, endures, was a fictional invention of the author Ffs, what real life culture would codify into their common law rules about ritual assassinations, a cascading continuation of murder after murder of selected individuals to be passed down from generati Broken April is a historical fiction novel based on true facts about Albania s past However, I thought a particular plot device, an ancient book of laws and social s which is the source of the problems that the main character, Gjorg Berisha, endures, was a fictional invention of the author Ffs, what real life culture would codify into their common law rules about ritual assassinations, a cascading continuation of murder after murder of selected individuals to be passed down from generation to generation No society would make up such an idiotic Code Right No, never happened Uh, waitThe mind boggling discoveries I made after googling some of the elements in this translated story, written in 1978, are that ritual blood feuds actually happened in Albania s past and are STILL happening today in the rural areas and mountains of Albania Plus, an ancient book of laws and s, a book called the Kanun which describes how wh...Set in the interwar years, this haunting novel tells of an Albanian blood feud Gyakmarrja, as it affects several people Gjorg George , the unwilling killer of his murdered brother s killer Bessian and Diana, a honeymooning couple who want to see the mountain area of Albania and to investigate the customs firsthand and Mark, the steward of the blood He collects what is called a blood tax from a murderer s family and maintains Book of the Blood, giving details of every blood feud going b Set in the interwar years, this haunting novel tells of an Albanian blood feud Gyakmarrja, as it affects several people Gjorg George , the unwilling killer of his murdered brother s killer Bessian and Diana, a honeymooning couple who want to see the mountain area of Albania and to investigate the customs firsthand and Mark, the steward of the blood He collects what is called a blood tax fr... 3033 47 74115138 Jings Just about the most depressing book I have ever read powerful, bleak and timeless It s sometime in post Ottoman, pre Hoxha Albania and a blood feud is playing itself out through the eyes of a young mountaineer, who is hopelessly caught in the game, while a couple of urban honeymooners are rubbernecking their way around the High Plateau Then it gets a bit Passage to India as done by Kafka And it s drizzling in the grey mountains, where the widow in black sits by the road above the vill Jings Just about the most depressing book I have ever read powerful, bleak and timeless It s sometime in post Ottoman, pre Hoxha Albania and a blood feud is playing itself out through the eyes of a young mountaineer, who is hopelessly caught in the game, while a couple of urban honeymooners are rubbernecking their way ...

Broken April
  • English
  • 23 February 2018
  • Paperback
  • 216 pages
  • 0099449870
  • Ismail Kadare
  • Broken April