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Kadare has written a ton of books, many of which are like this one, short and superficially simple. The story takes place in 1377-80 and is set in a small Albanian town on the bank of a river whose name translates as "Wicked Waters." It's narrated by a Christian monk, whose quarters look out over the river, which for decades is crossed by a toll ferry. However, modernity is coming in the form of roads and improved travel networks. There's some kind of commercial entity buying up stretches of roa
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Apr 05, 2022
Nina ( picturetalk321 )
marked it as irgendwann-zu-lesen
