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Chronicle in Stone

Name: Chronicle in Stone
Author: Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare Original title Kronikë në gur (Albanian, 1971)

Chronicle in Stone is a novel by Ismail Kadare. First published in Albanian in 1971, and sixteen years later in English translation, it describes life in a small Albanian city during World War II.

“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”

Ismail Kadare book Chronicle in Stone

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“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

Ismail Kadare book Chronicle in Stone

Source: Chronicle in Stone

“Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.”

Ismail Kadare book Chronicle in Stone

Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone

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