In the mid 1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder, in hand. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as the Iliadand the Odysseywithout ever writing them down. The answer, they think, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining natural habitat of the oral epic. But immediately on their arrival the scholars' seemingly arcane research puts them at the center of ethnic strife in the Balkans. Mistaken for foreign spies, they are placed under the surveillance of a nearsighted informer with a prodigious gift for reproducing conversations he has overheard. He is soon generating a stream of floridly written reports about the visitors' puzzling activities. News of their presence in the provincial town of N---- sets gossip to flying, and while the town's governor speculates on their imminent capture, his pretty wife, from her bath, plots her...
Author: Kadaré Ismaíl
ISBN: 9781559704014
Year of publication: 1981
Translator: Bellos David
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 166
Reading time: 2 h. 46 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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