The Siege (Kadare novel)

The Siege
	Albanian cover
Author	Ismail Kadare
Original title	Kështjella
Translator	David Bellos
Country	Albania
Language	Albanian
Genre	History
Publisher	Sh.B. Naim Frashëri, Canongate Books
Publication date	1970
Published in English	2008
Pages	304 328
ISBN	0-8021-4475-6

The Siege (also known as The Castle) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella. It tells about the Albanian-Ottoman war during the time of Skanderbeg. It was translated into French by Jusuf Vrioni and then from French into English by David Bellos under the title The Siege.^[1] Bellos in his afterword suggests that the book is patterned after Marin Barleti's work The Siege of Shkodra.^[2]^[3] The narrator of the novel is however not an Albanian but a member of the besieging Turkish army.^[1]

References

1 2 Gibson, Brian (Jan 23, 2009). "New life for a novelist's early work". The Globe and Mail.
↑ Kadare, Ismail (2008). The Siege. Canongate Books. pp. 324–328. ISBN 978-1-84767-185-1.
↑ Liukkonen, Petri. "Ismail Kadare". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015.

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[Gibson-1] 1 2 Gibson, Brian (Jan 23, 2009). "New life for a novelist's early work". The Globe and Mail.

[2] Kadare, Ismail (2008). The Siege. Canongate Books. pp. 324–328. ISBN 978-1-84767-185-1.

[3] Liukkonen, Petri. "Ismail Kadare". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015.