by Ismaíl Kadaré · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420652757
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A taxi inexplicably veers off the road and crashes on the highway leading to Vienna airport. As a result of the crash, the two passengers, a mature man and a young woman, both of Albanian nationality, are killed. Police investigations fail to clarify what distracted the taxi driver when looking in the rearview mirror as to lose control of the vehicle. The matter is filed as a mere accident, albeit with the qualifier of strange. Months later, the Serbian and Albanian intelligence services first, and an anonymous investigator later, claim the file and initiate their own inquiries. The deceased, Besfort Y., was an expert on Balkan affairs at the Council of Europe who had closely followed the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, especially the Kosovo war. The woman accompanying him, Rovena, had met with him in different hotels throughout Europe, so she could be involved in Besfort's never revealed activities. Through police evidence, testimonies from friends and acquaintances, a diary of Rovena..., a sketch of the personality of the deceased is drawn, and above all, of their particular love relationship. Political thriller, novel about the investigation of a crime, love novel..., The accident is one of Kadaré's most peculiar works. As usual in the author, with a concise and beautiful prose, keeping at all times tense the threads of intrigue, Kadaré tries to answer in The accident that question of whether love exists or is an illusion. With the backdrop of the bloody conflicts of the Balkans, and its traditional references to classical tragedies, Kadaré delves into the winding meanders of human love relationships; sometimes banal, others inextricable and surprising.
Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, which made him famous internationally.
