Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Explained

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Title Orig:Lulet e Ftohta të marsit
Translator:David Bellos
Border:yes
Author:Ismail Kadare
Cover Artist:Kazimir Malevich, Head of Peasant - 1932
Country:Albania
Language:Albanian
Genre:novel
Publisher:Onufri Publishing House
Publisher2:The Harvill Press
Pub Date:2000
English Pub Date:2002
Pages:182
Isbn:978-0099449836

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is a 2000 novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare set in the 1990s when feuding and vendetta had returned to the country after the fall of the communist regime.[1] The English translation by David Bellos was first published by The Harvill Press in 2002, and then by Vintage Books in 2003. It was translated not directly from Albanian, but from the French translation by Jusuf Vrioni (published by Fayard).

Notes and References

  1. Book: Boxall . Petert . Boxall . Peter . 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die . 2006 . Universe . New York . 978-0789313706 . 901 . 1st . Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is set in contemporary Albania and tells the story of Mark Gurabardhi, an artist who is struggling to live and work after the fall of his country's communist regime. .