**Longlisted for the International Booker PrizeThe Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the YearUsing a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin passed over the world**In June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and they spoke about the arrest of Osip Ma...

Crispin was a hardworking shoemaker with a kind heart. He spent his days carefully crafting shoes for the people in his village. His curly hair bounced as he worked, and his bright green eyes sparkled with joy. Crispin loved his work, but lately, times had been tough. Business was slow, and he was struggling to make ends meet.

A Malaysian Miss Marple examines a suspicious death following an exorcism in this mystery by the author of Shadow Play for fans of Alexander McCall Smith.Mak Chik Maryam is by profession a market-trader: She sells the exquisite, hand-made fabrics for which her village is well known. But her true calling is as the Miss Marple of rural Malaysia, where her skills are badly needed. While the police-chief is a nice boy, everyone knows that no man can match a vi...

From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize – a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Márquez, and Rushdie – the stunning new translation of one of his major works.In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough, dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banner...

A story full of magic, adventure and wonders( Fantasy books for kids )This book is suitable for children from 8 to 12 years old, and it is a beautiful story from which the child learns wonderful qualities The love of his parents, friendship and helping others, and the child will never tire of it.Trees and animals that talks like humansStrange creatures that he has never seen anything...

In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old reemerge in daily life. The marriage of a girl and a snake is not just a legend but a news i...

At a time when our world is going through a lot of upheaval and towards what feels like a complete paradigm shift to a new reality, many of the old ways of being will change, and I consider myself an agent of this change in the context of spirituality and raising the level of consciousness, both individually and collectively.This book is my humble attempt to call the Divine Feminine back to heal and bring balance both within ourselves and to Earth. It is written in the context of t...

"Ismail Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness." —Los Angeles TimesAn old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But...

The Man Booker International–winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania’s most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature—Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare—through the lens of resisting totalitarianism.In isolationist Albania, which suffered under a Communist dictatorship for nearly half a century, classic global literature reached Ismail Kadare across centuries and bor...

Islamization of Knowledge: General Principles and Work Plan presents a systematic framework for addressing the intellectual crisis facing the Muslim Ummah and offers a comprehensive blueprint for educational reform. Authored by distinguished scholars Dr. Ismail Rājī al-Fārūqī and Dr. Abdul Hamid Abū Sulayman, this foundational work emerged from decades of scholarly dialogue and represents the core vision of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).The ...

A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another’s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The Successor.And then, shortly before Shehu was to assume power, he was found dead. T...

Have you always wanted to learn computer programming but are afraid it'll be too difficult for you?This book will take you into the process of learning the basics of C # in simple stepThis book is the first book in three stages.