Description
In Vienna, two Albanian émigrés set out for the airport in a taxi that soon overturns—an instant of catastrophe that becomes the novel’s haunting focal point. Told in three interlocking sections, the story follows what is seen, misremembered, and inferred around the accident, as a cab driver’s brief glimpse in the rear-view mirror opens onto questions of fate, guilt, and the stories people tell to survive loss. With Kadare’s signature modernist, fabulist sensibility, the tragedy expands beyond the crash into a meditation on exile and the Balkan ironies that persist even far from home. Blending allegory, metaphor, and razor-edged psychological observation, the book invites readers to keep turning the meaning over—never quite letting the accident be only an accident.
Available Editions
paperback
Bond Street Books
Published Jan 1, 2011
263 pages
ISBN: 9780385670852
hardcover
Canongate Books
Published Jan 1, 2010
263 pages
ISBN: 9781847673398
paperback
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published Jan 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780802196194
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Translation
From: alb
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Accident by Ismail Kadare.