{"product_id":"twilight-of-the-eastern-gods-9780802123114","title":"Twilight of the Eastern Gods","description":"In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. \u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Eastern Gods\u003c\/i\u003e is Kadare's fictionalized recreation of his time spent at this factory of the intellect, a place created to produce a new generation of poets, novelists, and playwrights, all adhering to the state-sanctioned \"socialist realist\" aesthetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring 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. \u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Eastern Gods\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of a city and a story of youth, disenchantment, and the incredible importance of the written word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ismail Kadare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802123114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/30\/2014 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2014 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsmail Kadare\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Albania in 1936. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe General of the Dead Army\u003c\/i\u003e, established him as a major international voice in literature. His work has since been translated into forty languages, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize, for a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bellos\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of the Program of Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's \u003ci\u003eLife A User's Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of the celebrated book on translation, \u003ci\u003eIs That A Fish In Your Ear?\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated seven of Kadare's novels.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":41142748053619,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":28.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_dd33dc15-d534-4e44-b092-0d012963bac4.jpg?v=1701878225","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/twilight-of-the-eastern-gods-9780802123114","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}