One of the most important voices in literature today. * * Metro * *
His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny - his historical allegories point both to the grand themes and small details that make up life in a restrictive environment. He is a great writer, by any nation's standards. * * Financial Times * *
A master storyteller. -- John Carey
One of the great writers of our time. * * Scotsman * *
Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness. * * Los Angeles Times * *
The Accident cannot be put aide, but rickly teases the reader to try to understand more of the meaning of what, exactly, the cab driver glimpsed in his rear-view mirror. * * The Independent * *
Ismail Kadare has somtimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why. * * Scottish Mail on Sunday * *
A compelling performance...lean, calm and footsure, Kadare's writing keeps you reading. -- Phil Baker * * The Sunday Times * *
harks back to spy mysteries of the Cold War era...Kadare teasingly guides us through the search for an elusive truth...played out against the power struggles of Europe's states. * * The Metro * *
one goes to him precisely for that quality of indeterminacy, which he uses to advance a very singular vision of the intractable murkiness of human affairs. * * The Guardian * *
compelling * * The Guardian * *
a deliberately mystifying book [with] a continental seriousness about it, a Milan Kundera-like quality about its very un-English mixture of sex and political history. * * the Sunday Times * *
compulsive and unnerving...a provocative exploration of the sinister underside of human relations. -- Mary Fitzgerald * * The Observer * *
In John Hodgson's translation, Kadare's prose retains its elusive elegance -- Jane Shilling * * The Sunday Telegraph * *
There are books which seem less the second-time round; Kadare's seem more...one can relish his mastery of tone and the tireless probing intelligence of narrative. -- Allan Massie * * The Scotsman * *
Beautifully told in sparce, simple prose. * * Scottish Review of Books * *
Toys with the reader's mind in something of the same way Hoxha once played with Kadare and his fellow citizens. * * Herald * *
