by Ismail Kadare · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491813903
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Twenty years after the defeat of the Italian army in Albania, a general takes on the mission of recovering the bodies of his compatriots who fell in combat during World War II. Accompanied by a military chaplain, he moves to the neighboring country and undertakes the painful task of locating, unearthing, and gathering the remains of that dead army. Trapped in the mud, the darkness, and the distrustful gaze of the villagers, this couple serves Ismaíl Kadaré to raise a fable about the reasons for war and its terrible results, as well as about the idiosyncrasies of his country.
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.
