Also published as: Elegy for Kosovo

Author: Ismail Kadare Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781860467073 9781611451467 1860467075 1611451469

On 28 June, 1389, a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. The battle was over in ten hours. But ever since, the birds of prey have been hovering above the battlefield to pick over the corpses. On 28 June, 1989, that the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launched his campaign for a fresh massacre of the majority population of Kosovo, the Albanians. That was the day on which Yugoslavia began its process of implosion and post-War western Europe was first revisited by the barbarity of earlier epochs. The agony of one tiny population at the close of the 20th Century is the symptom of a sickness that European civilisation has carried in its bloodstream for a thousand years. Similar books: The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman Blind Sunflowers by Alberto Mendez Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori A Taste of Honey by Jabari Asim An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet A Scrap of Time by Ida Fink Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma Donoghue The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy Rattlebone by Maxine Clair Bread and Chocolate by Philippa Gregory