The File on H.

Ismail Kadare

earliest edition we have, 1989 Arcade Pub., 1998 202 pages

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In the mid 1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder, in hand. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey without ever writing them down. The answer, they think, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining natural habitat of the oral epic. But...

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Editions we hold

The File on H. paperback · 2002 · Arcade Publishing · 192 pages · 9781559706278
El Expediente H. paperback · 2001 · Alianza Editorial Sa · 179 pages · 9788420672588
The file on H. edition · 1998 · Arcade Pub. · 202 pages
The file on H edition · 1997 · Harvill Press · 169 pages
Le Dossier H. paperback · 1991 · French & European Pubns · 9780785926061
Le dossier H edition · 1989 · Fayard · 213 pages

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