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  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

  • A Novel
  • By: Ismail Kadare
  • Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
  • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

By: Ismail Kadare
Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
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In a town at the foot of the northern Highlands, life goes on as always, but people are in a state of shock: A bank has been robbed, a sure sign of the Westernization of this backward Balkan land. Meanwhile, other strange events - such as the marriage of a girl and a snake - confirm that ancient legends still prevail. People are flocking from far and wide to search for a tunnel to the Secret State Archives, said to house records of crimes they may have committed. Some even claim the ghosts of former dictators Hoxha, Brezhnev, and Ulbricht - not to mention Oedipus - have been seen there.... Against this backdrop, a simple and sensual love story between a painter and a girl stands out as light against dark.

©2000, 2011 Librairie Artheme Fayard. English translation copyright 2002, 2011 by David Bellos (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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narration could use a redo

definitely the most controversial ismail kadar novel and probably is the most lacking in its translation. the story was interesting but there were some elements that weren't clear to me. kinda reminds me of the sympathizer and those books in that trilogy. narration is really lacking though, really bad pronunciation of words and tones.

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