Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

2000 novel by Ismail Kadare

978-0099449836

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Albanian: Lulet e ftohta të marsit, lit. 'Cold Flowers of March') is a 2000 novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare set in the 1990s when feuding and vendetta had returned to the country after the fall of the communist regime.[1] The English translation by David Bellos was first published by The Harvill Press in 2002, and then by Vintage Books in 2003. It was translated not directly from Albanian, but from the French translation by Jusuf Vrioni (published by Fayard).

References

  1. ^ Boxall, Petert (2006). Boxall, Peter (ed.). 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1st ed.). New York: Universe. pp. 901. ISBN 978-0789313706. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is set in contemporary Albania and tells the story of Mark Gurabardhi, an artist who is struggling to live and work after the fall of his country's communist regime.
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Works by Ismail Kadare
  • The General of the Dead Army (1963)
  • The Siege (1970)
  • Chronicle in Stone (1971)
  • The Great Winter (1977)
  • Twilight of the Eastern Gods (1978)
  • The Traitor's Niche (1978)
  • The Three-Arched Bridge (1978)
  • Broken April (1980)
  • The Ghost Rider (1980)
  • The File on H. (1981)
  • The Palace of Dreams (1981)
  • The Concert (1988)
  • The Blinding Order (1991)
  • The Pyramid (1992)
  • Spiritus (1996)
  • Elegy for Kosovo (1998)
  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000)
  • Agamemnon's Daughter (2003)
  • The Successor (2003)
  • The Fall of the Stone City (2008)
  • A Girl in Exile (2009)
  • The Doll (2015)
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