One of these days the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare will probably win the Nobel Prize– If you read my review in the LA Review of Books of his just-translated 1970s bildungsroman that is partially about Boris Pasternak’s winning the Nobel Prize in 1958, you will already be many steps ahead in the cocktail-conversation game!
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http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/albania-prophet-surveillance-state/