A Girl in Exile

A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. (Albanian: E penguara: Rekuiem për Linda B.) is a novel by Ismail Kadare.[1][2][3] It has been described as "one of Kadare's best novels".[4]

First edition (publ. Onufri)
Cover art: detail from Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman by Botticelli, 1480s

Originally published in Albanian in 2009, the English translation by John Hodgson came out in 2016.

Footnotes

Caroline Moore, A Girl in Exile: Ismail Kadare’s novel is full of absence, The Spectator, 26 March 2016.
A Girl in Exile, by Ismail Kadare, Financial Times, 2016.
Adam Kirsch, The haunted Albania of Ismail Kadare’s A Girl in Exile, New Statesman, 8 April 2016
Alberto Manguel, "The evil of the gods" (review of 'A Girl in Exile'), Times Literary Supplement, 20 May 2016, p. 22.

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[1] Caroline Moore, A Girl in Exile: Ismail Kadare’s novel is full of absence, The Spectator, 26 March 2016.

[2] A Girl in Exile, by Ismail Kadare, Financial Times, 2016.

[3] Adam Kirsch, The haunted Albania of Ismail Kadare’s A Girl in Exile, New Statesman, 8 April 2016

[4] Alberto Manguel, "The evil of the gods" (review of 'A Girl in Exile'), Times Literary Supplement, 20 May 2016, p. 22.