Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business, past and present, to suffering self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the people whose graves they are unearthing.
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Ismaíl Kadaré (1936-2024) está considerado un clásico contemporáneo de la literatura universal. Intelectual comprometido, su disidencia con el autárquico régimen comunista albanés le llevó a exiliarse en Francia en los años noventa. Poeta y novelista, fue autor de una amplia obra, traducida a más de cuarenta lenguas. A lo largo de su carrera literaria, cosechó numerosos premios entre los que cabe destacar el Man Booker International Prize 2005 y el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2009.