Chronicle in Stone

WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

Set just before and during the Second World War, Chronicle in Stone is a tale told by an imaginative young boy whose magical view of life tempers the tragedies that befall his family and neighbours as their city is battered by wave upon wave of occupying forces: first the Italians, then the Greeks, and finally the Germans. The joys and horrors of the modern world descending upon an ancient land are recounted with the beauty and simplicity that mark Ismail Kadare as one of the world’s foremost storytellers.