A Girl in Exile

Resumen del libro

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book.

As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication - to Linda B.

Biografía del autor

Ismaíl Kadaré (1936-2024) está considerado un clásico contemporáneo de la literatura universal. Intelectual comprometido, su disidencia con el autárquico régimen comunista albanés le llevó a exiliarse en Francia en los años noventa. Poeta y novelista, fue autor de una amplia obra, traducida a más de cuarenta lenguas. A lo largo de su carrera literaria, cosechó numerosos premios entre los que cabe destacar el Man Booker International Prize 2005 y el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2009.