Twilight of the Eastern Gods
by Kadare, Ismail
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Translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos.
During his time at the Gorky Institute, a kind of miniature Soviet Union where writers from deepest Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus all came to study, Kadare was caught up in the furore over Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize win, when the Soviet Union demanded that Pasternak refuse the foreign, bourgeois award, or be sentenced to exile. Kadare's time at the Institute, the drunken nights, corrupt professors, and enforced aesthetics are fictionalized in a novel that entwines Russian and Albanian myth with history. "Twilight of the Eastern Gods" is a portrait of a city and a story of youth, disenchantment, and the incredible importance of the written word.
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