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A Girl in Exile

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2009 novel by Ismail Kadare
First edition (publ. Onufri)
Cover art: detail from Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman by Botticelli, 1480s
AuthorIsmail Kadare
Original titleE penguara: Rekuiem për Linda B.
TranslatorJohn Hodgson
Cover artistBotticelli
LanguageAlbanian
Publication date2009
Publication placeAlbania
Published in English2016
Pages192

A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. (Albanian: E penguara: Rekuiem për Linda B., lit.'Hindered: Requiem for Linda B.') is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare. It has been described as "one of Kadare's best novels".

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

Footnotes

  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.
Works by Ismail Kadare


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