Part fiction, part history, these three short narratives focus on the original Battle of Kosovo. In them Ismail Kadare, an Albanian patriot - but one who has es... » 

Part fiction, part history, these three short narratives focus on the original Battle of Kosovo. In them Ismail Kadare, an Albanian patriot - but one who has escaped from a narrow nationalism - has borne witness to the lost nobility of the Balkan peoples and issued a call for its restoration. «