TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kadare, Ismail
AU  -  Bray, Barbara (tr.)
TI  - CONCERT
SN  - 9780099560890
U1  - F 
PY  - 2013////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - China
KW  - Albania
KW  - Albanian fiction
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - China--Beijing
N1  - It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. The Chinese intend to punish their interfering little ally discreetly. But is the Sino-Albanian axis about to come adrift? This is Kadare's surreal black comedy about the inner sanctums of political power and the mysterious causal chains that transform ordinary lives
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