The Siege
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品牌: Kadare
基本信息·出版社：GROVE/ATLANTIC INC
·页码：336 页
·出版日期：2010年07月
·ISBN：0802144756
·International Standard Book Number：0802144756
·条形码：9780802144751
·EAN：9780802144751
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize - a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Marquez, and Rushdie - the stunning new translation of one of his major works. In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough, dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed minarets, and tens of thousands of men fill the plain below. From this moment on, the world is waiting to hear that the fortress has fallen. The Siege tells the enthralling story of the weeks and months that follow - of the exhilaration and despair of the battlefield, the constantly shifting strategies of war, and those whose lives are held in the balance, from the Pasha himself to the artillerymen, astrologer, blind poet, and harem of women who accompany him. "Believe me," the general said. "I've taken part in many sieges but this," he waved towards the castle walls, "is where the most fearful carnage of our times will take place. And you surely know as well as I do that great massacres always give birth to great books. You really do have an opportunity to write a thundering chronicle redolent with pitch and blood, and it will be utterly different from the graceful whines composed at the fireside by squealers who never went to war." Brilliantly vivid, as insightful as it is compelling, The Siege is an unforgettable account of the clash of two great civilisations, and a portrait of war that will resonate across the centuries. "From the Hardcover edition."
媒体推荐Ismail Kadare's "The Siege" dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the fifteenth century. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control over the citadel unfolds, Kadare's newest work opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires as well as the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the battlefield. Kadare is a hugely respected novelist and a hero to his people, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. "The Siege" is a "powerfully atmospheric . . . and vividly rendered" ("The Telegraph") novel of considerable cumulative power and resonance for our own times.
