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  <default_description>Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching   &lt;P&gt;coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human  spirit.  Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must  endure the  deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy  country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of  domination  inundate his city. Through the boy's eyes, we see the terrors of World War  II as  he witnesses fascist invasions, allied bombings, partisan infighting, and  the  many faces of human cruelty-as well as the simple pleasures of life.  Evacuating  to the countryside, he expects to find an ideal world full of extraordinary   &lt;P&gt;things, but discovers instead an archaic backwater where a severed arm  becomes a  talisman and deflowered girls mysteriously vanish.  	Woven between the chapters of the boy's story are tantalizing  fragments of  the city's history. As the devastation mounts, the fragments lose  coherence, and  we perceive firsthand how the violence of war destroys more than just  buildings  and bridges.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chronicle in Stone, first published in Albanian in 1971 and sixteen years later in English in a translation whose author remains unidentified, describes life in a small Albanian town during World War II.  The mystery of the novel’s translation was elucidated for me through an Internet search, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63147857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My third outing with Kadare and this one that centres around with the Italian occupation of Albania during World War II is verygood indeed.  Narrated by a child, Kadare balances poignancy and insight without giving into mawkishness.  Some really really funny moments (the villager who changes his nam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78862903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the blurb (which I must quote, because it is so delightful and lets you know the style of the book):<br/>&quot;It was a strange city, and seemed to have been cast up in the valley one winter's night like some prehistoric creature that was now clawing its way up the mountainside.  Everything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22531299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Coming-of-age stories are perhaps my favorite of all stories, and this one had a lot to offer.  There are many beautiful, though sometimes gruesome, descriptions.  It is a story about an ordinary life continuing though and growing up beause of war, violence, and civil unrest.  The story is translate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40316955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I'm currently getting to know the Albanian culture, I decided to read for this author. He's the Albanian Naguib Mahfouz. I chose this book as my first as he talks of his own chilhood in Gjirokaster. I liked it so far, sometimes it was a bit too slow, but all in all it was entertaining.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was such a difficult read.  It is about Albania and what has gone on there so it was interesting but difficult to understand during parts of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Author uses an interesting approach.  Each chapter starts with a brief &quot;chronicle&quot; - snippets of what is happening at this time and place.  The protaganist, a young boy, growing up in war torn Albania, then proceeds to explain those brief statements, as he experienced them.  As a child, hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20995251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story is told from the perspective of a child so it's not sophisticated, but it's compelling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A most amazing second paragraph. So glad I found out about this writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Largely anecdotal and written in blistering prose, this book is a brilliant tale of a young boy growing up in occupied Gjirokaster, Albania. We learn about bomb shelters beneath the town citadel, heavily perfumed Italian soldiers, the fleeting appearances of the Greeks, and a boy's love for an aerod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10049501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Always interesting to read about a situation, in this case WWII, from another's perspective. This book is about a small city in Albania that is occupied at various times throughout the war by Italy, Greece, Italy again, Greece again and finally by Germany. Also mixes a non-Western perspective into o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13034025">more...</a>]]></body>
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