The Siege - Softcover

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<div>Ismail Kadare&#8217;s <i>The Siege</i> 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&#8217;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.<br>Kadare is a hugely respected novelist and a hero to his people, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. <i>The Siege</i> is a &#147;powerfully atmospheric . . . and vividly rendered&#8221; (<i>The Telegraph</i>) novel of considerable cumulative power and resonance for our own times.</div>

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