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Title	:	Broken April
Author	:	Ismail Kadare
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	New Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	November 6th 2003 by Vintage (first published November 23rd 1978)
Categories	:	Fiction

Broken April

Ismail Kadare

Paperback | Pages: 216 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 3752 Users | 357 Reviews

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From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April.

Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta.

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Original Title:	Prilli i Thyer
ISBN:	0099449870 (ISBN13: 9780099449874)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Brezftoht(Albania) Albania

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I read my first Ismail Kadare novel, Broken April, for the Albania stop of my Around the World in Eighty Books challenge. I've wanted to read his work for quite a while, and am pleased to report that I was entirely swept away with this novel, so much so that the extended review which I was planning to write went out of the window rather early on. The translation here is smooth and accessible, and the writing is often quite beautiful in an understated way. Broken April is filled with fascinating

Jings. Just about the most depressing book I have ever read: powerful, bleak and timeless. It's sometime in post-Ottoman, pre-Hoxha Albania and a blood feud is playing itself out through the eyes of a young mountaineer, who is hopelessly caught in the game, while a couple of urban honeymooners are rubbernecking their way around the High Plateau. Then it gets a bit Passage to India as done by Kafka. And it's drizzling in the grey mountains, where the widow in black sits by the road above the

Broken April' is a historical fiction novel based on true facts about Albania's past. However, I thought a particular plot device, an ancient book of laws and social mores which is the source of the problems that the main character, Gjorg Berisha, endures, was a fictional invention of the author. Ffs, what real-life culture would codify into their common law rules about ritual assassinations, a cascading continuation of murder after murder of selected individuals to be passed down from

When reading this book I recalled "Blindness" of Saramago. Broken April is haunting, dark, disturbing and yet strangely attractive. The narration is so matter of fact yet the chill of death is looming in every word. It is the story of the relentless Kanun holding sway over the Albanian mountainsmen. The currency of the Kanunis death and so death seems as ever-present as money is in our society. There is always a sense of weirdness and unreality in the way the Mountainsmen deal with death,

This is not a book intended to make the reader comfortable.The funeral took place the next day around noon. the professional mourners came from afar, clawing their faces and tearing their hair according to the custom. . . . Gjorg, too, walked in the procvession. At first he had refused to take part in the ceremony, but at last he had given in to his father's urging. . . . "But I am the Gjaks," Gjorg had protested. "I'm the one who killed him. Why must I go?"It's inconceivable, isn't it? A

An amazing work of fiction that explains a dismal, distressing, oppressive, and highly ritualized code of revenge in an obscure area of Albania. Much to my dismay, this code of revenge is fact. (I googled it.) Perhaps this is Kadare's point. The book, hands down, is my favorite "dark" book because it so explictly depicts the karmic absurdity of revenge.One wonders if revenge is actually a natural response or perhaps a form of defensive behavior gone wrong. At any rate, our desires for revenge

"Broken April" is a haunting story with an out of time charm. There are not many novels around with such a simple and yet powerfully evocative style. More than the plot in itself what counts here is the atmosphere Kadare is able to recreate.I actually perceived the mist and the cold as well as the brightless nights and the wind-swept landscapes where the novel takes place with an uncommon intensity.As a reader who gets easily distracted, "Broken April" meant an unusual business to me: this book