Right at the outset of this autobiographical novel — in fact it reads more like a memoir — Ismail Kadare sets up his stall as a lover of women. His lust even permeates his similes: ‘… that particular path, like some women who, though not beautiful, possess a hidden charm…’ and that’s only the walk to the post office.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £15.29, Tel: 08430 600033. Ranjit Bolt is a playwright and translator and the author of Losing It, a novel in verse.
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