The Fall of the Stone City
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 First edition cover showing Moche burial mask from Peru, A.D. 525–550. | |
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
|---|---|
| Original title | Darka e gabuar |
| Translator | John Hodgson |
| Language | Albanian |
| Genre | historical fiction, political fiction |
| Publisher | Onufri |
Publication date | 2008 |
| Publication place | Albania |
Published in English | 2013 |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | 978-0857860125 |
The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e gabuar) is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo[1] the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.[2]
Kadare had previously written about his home city Gjirokastër in his earlier novels Chronicle in Stone and A Question of Lunacy.[3]