"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 Times
 
An 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 unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

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Praise for Ismail Kadare:
 
"One of the most important voices in literature today."
—Metro
 
"Kadare's writing is a striking reminder that great literature does not depend on circumstances, but overcomes them."
—Independent (UK)

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Born in 1936, ISMAIL KADARE is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first Man Booker International Prize for "a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact." He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain.

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