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The Siege.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Albania's most distinguished novelist tells the story of fifteenth-century Ottoman invaders who lay siege to an Albanian fortress and find their assaults thwarted. Kadare mostly narrates from the Ottomans' perspective, but intersperses short, stylized accounts from the point of view of the besieged Christians. The novel's conscience is an official campaign chronicler for the ...

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