About “Broken April”

A 1978 novel by Ismail Kadare set in the Albanian mountains, where the blood-feud code of the kanun governs generations of lives. Protagonist Gjorg, a young mountain man, knows from the first page that fulfilling the kanun will end his own life within a month, while intellectual Bessian romanticizes the peasants' suffering as mythic.

Book details

Published
2007
Latest edition
2007 · ISBN 9781561310654
ISBN
9781561310654
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Broken April 2007 9781561310654 Buy on Amazon
Broken April 1998 9781860465031 Buy on Amazon
Broken April 1990 0941533573 Buy on Amazon
Broken April 1990 0863569080 Buy on Amazon

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How many pages is Broken April?

Broken April by Ismail Kadare has 248 pages.

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