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Kadaré’s old house
Now a burned-out ruin.
Just a postscript in stone.
Ismail Kadaré's family home (right), Gjirokastër, Albania.
From Corfu Blues, the book
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- Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
But his books are safe
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. There were plans to restore the house, perhaps as a museum. Not sure if anything has been done. It's marvelous to visit his hometown when reading a novel like "Chronicle in Stone".
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