Author: Ismail Kadare Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
Purchase/reserch links:
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:
|