Twilight of the Eastern Gods

Ismail Kadare

Translated by David Bellos earliest edition we have, 1981 Canongate Books Ltd, 2015 paperback

In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is Kadare’s fictionalized re-creation of his time spent at this “factory of the intellect,” a place created to produce a new generation of poets, novelists, and playwrights, all adhering to the state-sanctioned “socialist realist”...

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David Bellos 1 printing we hold · 2015 · Canongate Books Ltd

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Editions we hold

Twilight of the Eastern Gods paperback · 2015 · Canongate Books Ltd · 9780857866196
Twilight of the Eastern Gods hardcover · 2014 · Grove Press · 224 pages · 9780802123114
Muzgu i perëndive të stepës edition · 2006 · Onufri · 197 pages
Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe paperback · 1999 · Gallimard Education · 217 pages · 9782070381340
Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe paperback · 1989 · French & European Pubns · 9780785926566
Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe edition · 1981 · Fayard · 214 pages

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