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Broken April (Albanian: Prilli i thyer) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare. Published in 1978, the book explores one of Kadare's recurring themes: how the past affects the present. The novel concerns the centuries-old tradition of hospitality, blood feuds, and revenge killing in the highlands of north Albania in the 1930s.
23 nov 1978 · In Broken April, Kadare writes about one of them most peculiar and specific parts of Albanian culture, the feudal set of laws, Kanun, and its terrible Vendetta rules, Gjakmarrja. When one person is killed the family members are bound to revenge the murder by taking the life of the killer and so on.
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Broken April is a tragic and moving examination of fate, justice, and love. While Kadaré focuses on a culture specific to a small region of Albania, he succeeds in addressing themes universal to all of humanity.
26 lug 2012 · "Broken April" has a sense of distance in the way it presents a culture that is not one's own together with a strong sense of skepticism, that takes the book in a direction different from Isak Dinesen. Something all--too-crass concludes Kadare's story of the Albanian blood feud.
Published in 1979 and translated into English in 1990, Ismail Kadare’s Broken April is a dramatic story set in the remote mountainsides of Albania. The story opens with a young mountaineer murdering a neighbor to honor a blood feud.
23 dic 2010 · In Broken April, by Ismail Kadare, the high plateau of northern Albania looks much like the hades of never seeing face to face. It takes place sometime in the 19th century; there are telephones and rumors of hydroelectricity, but wealthy people still travel by carriage and there’s no mention of WWI.
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5 ago 2020 · Broken April reveals the Kanun in Albania in its finest detail, as well as the sorrowful story of a young person who will not long enough to see May. Gjorgu, who unwittingly killed a man, to revenge his brother, will live without fear of being killed for a certain period according to the Kanun.
