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Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural
A GIRL IN EXILE
Requiem for Linda B.
By Ismail Kadare
Translated by John Hodgson 185 pp. Counterpoint. $25.
By Cynthia Haven
Feb. 23, 2018
Ismail Kadare’s readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. Albania’s first major author is already winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, the Jerusalem Prize and other honors — the Swedish prize seems long overdue for the 82-year-old maestro. “A Girl in Exile,” published in Albanian in 2009, may rekindle the worldwide hopes.
