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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Broken April by Ismail Kadare. Broken April by Ismail Kadare. From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugit From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta. Get A Copy. Paperback , New Edition , pages. Published November 6th by Vintage first published November 23rd More Details Original Title. Brezftoht Albania Albania. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Broken April , please sign up. This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [Did Gjorg die in the end? Sarah H This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [Yes he was killed by a member from the rival family on the last page of the book! See 1 question about Broken April…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Broken April. Mar 06, Adina rated it really liked it Shelves: , albania. Real life interference did not help either. This is going to be long so I made some headlines for easier navigation. He started writing during the Communist regime in Albania and most of his work was either criticized or banned in the country because it appeared to criticized the regime. Kadare became famous internationally when his novel, The General of the Dead Army, was published in France. In Broken April, Kadare writes about one of them most peculiar and specific parts of Albanian culture, the feudal set of laws, Kanun, and its terrible Vendetta rules, Gjakmarrja. When one person is killed the family members are bound to revenge the murder by taking the life of the killer and so on. Bessian and Diana are in their Honeymoon. Since the husband makes a living writing about the Kanun, he proposed to visit the remote mountain villages where the laws are most prevalent. Although at the beginning the couple is close, as they continue their journey and discover more about the traditions they become more and more distant. While Bessian finds himself fascinated by the Kanun and Gjakmarrja, Diana is silently appalled. One day, Diana sees Gjorgu as he returns from the blood tax payment and becomes fascinated by the young man and marked by his sad destiny. Albanian History To understand the appearance of The Kanun in Albania I believe the history of the country should be understood. It was the victim of numerous wars, occupations and sorrows, like almost all Balkan countries. My Albanian GR friend. Don't forget the roman empire rule, the Byzantium rule, ottoman empire rule for almost years, 2 world wars and later the Italian protectorate. Just think about what a mixture of mentalities and circumstance behaviours developed throughout history. It was spread mainly in the mountainous North of the country where foregners and their laws could not enter. It was first codified in the 15th century and it was used in that for until 20th century. Regarding the Gjakmarrja, the laws say that if someone is killed the family members have to find and revenge the murder with blood. The family of the initial murderer now has to revenge their death and so on. The result is generations old family feuds and hundreds of deaths, resulting even in the complete decimation of a family. If this was crazy, note that if a person is murdered as a guest, the host is responsible to revenge the death. So, if you are lucky enough to have your guest killed, then the course is on you. If the murdered person is outside the village but still looking towards it then the responsibility is still with the host. According to the Kanun, visitors cannot be denied entrance in a house without facing serious punishment. In the novel, an entire village was burned down because they refused to shelter a visitor. As such, if a stranger knock on the door he has to be received, no matter if he wears the Gjakmarrja mark, a black bandana around the arm. I also have to mention a few marriage rules. Marriage is never cancelled. Even if the future wife is dying she will be brought to get married. If there is a death in the family the marriage will continue. The dead goes out of the house and the wife inside. I was appalled by all these rules, which in my opinion are barbaric and illogic. I might be able to understand them in feudal ages but some of them are still used Today. Many Albanian have left the country citing the blood feuds as the reason for their refugee seeking. Some were fake, true, as the endemic corruption in Albania found a way to make money from this as well. Corruption and bad management of the state is actually one of the main reasons of the Kanun revival. Feelings about Broken April The writing is simple, clinical, without embroideries. However, the feeling of doom and irreversibility is masterfully done. The repetition of the Kanun laws coming from different characters only adds to the overhanging dark atmosphere. I am thankful that I read Broken April even if it haunted my dreams for a while. Also, now I understand the Taken movie plot. View all 34 comments. Mar 24, Dennis rated it liked it Recommends it for: anyone with the mildest curiousity about Albania. This is a strange book. When I lived in eastern Europe, I was told there were two sorts of Eastern European countries, those which were highly- developed and industrialized Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and those which were not Bulgaria, Romania as well as those which were a mix of the two Yugoslavia, Soviet Union but no one knew anything about Albania. Reading this book, it's like the land that time forgot because you're never quite sure where you are in history. As it turns out, it's A This is a strange book. As it turns out, it's Albania between the two World Wars but there are no clues. Two story threads which meet but in an unsatisfying way, a land where blood vendettas between families last for centuries, people are travelling by coach, but it doesn't seem like another century, just a palce where progress has forgotten to arrive. I can't say that I liked the book or didn't like the book, only that it took me to a place where I'd never been and scared the shit out of me a bit. View all 3 comments. Jul 08, Lorenzo Berardi rated it really liked it Shelves: , albanian. There are not many novels around with such a simple and yet powerfully evocative style. More than the plot in itself what counts here is the atmosphere Kadare is able to recreate. I actually perceived the mist and the cold as well as the brightless nights and the wind-swept landscapes where the novel takes place with an uncommon intensity. As a reader who gets easily distracted, "Broken April" meant an unusual business to me: this book "Broken April" is a haunting story with an out of time charm. As a reader who gets easily distracted, "Broken April" meant an unusual business to me: this book never lost its grip over me from the very first to the last page. I don't know that much about Albania apart from being aware that Italian fought a useless and aggressive war there "We will break the kidneys of Albania! For a striking majority of Italians, contemporary Albania is a God-forsaken country, a place good for ruffians, pimps, prostitutes and hosting bogus universities where our dull politicians get their fake degrees. Besides, the massive waves of desperate immigration coming from the coasts of Albania which reached Italy in the s didn't help in the way our neighbours are perceived. It's true how there are Albanians involved in criminal activities in Italy, but then again it's always the bad guys who get all the news. Just like it happens with Romanians - who share a similar bad reputation in Italy and had a megalomaniac dictator too - there are thousands of good, honest, hardworking and considerate Albanian immigrants between the Alps and Sicily. But this is pretty obvious, isn't it? A code where vengeance through family feuds under brutal but strict rules is a focal point and that reminded me quite a lot the way disputes were handled in some parts of southern Italy and Sardinia. The Albanian Kanun, however, seem to be more structured and taken more seriously by the local inhabitants than its Italian less official counterparts. This novel speaks about the Kanun and the people living and quite often dying according to its principles, but it's also an excellent cross-section of the Albanian mountaineers, a people able to welcome the Church and the Islam without losing most of its peculiar habits and with a fascination for towers. There is a distinct beauty in the uniqueness of "Broken April" and this quality more than compensates the slight disappointment of a plot and an ending which could have been a bit better. Not that it really matters as what makes this novel very good is not its storytelling, but where the story itself happens. This is the first book by Ismail Kadare I've ever read and most likely the first of a long series. Here we have an author who definitely has something to say and somewhere to speak about. I'd like to listen more of it. Nov 19, Bob Newman rated it it was amazing Shelves: albania , european-literature. The Ultimate Novel of the Blood Feud in Albania Blood feuds have existed in many parts of the world throughout history. The practice seems to run most deeply in remote, mountainous areas where there is no state power. The tribal societies there often develop a code of justice to provide rules for an otherwise "rule-less" society. A code of the blood feud develops to handle murder cases. Nowhere that I ever heard of did The Ultimate Novel of the Blood Feud in Albania Blood feuds have existed in many parts of the world throughout history. Nowhere that I ever heard of did the system evolve into such an intricate traditional code of laws as in the mountainous highlands of Albania. There, the Kanun, or Law of Lek Dukagjini spread throughout the lawless region now lying in northern Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro, a region that largely maintained its own identity and customs throughout the centuries-long period of Turkish rule, to emerge in 20th century Europe with the blood feud still flourishing. Kadare, Albania's premier writer, has written a vivid, dark novel that not only captures the details of highland Albanian life in the s, but also shows the ultimate tragedy for a society that allows murder to follow murder, inexorably and unchallenged. A couple from the more urbanized, less-traditional lowlands go for their honeymoon into the highlands, riding in a horse-drawn carriage--a great luxury for the highlanders mainly because roads were very scarce. The man, a writer, tends to romanticize the blood-soaked traditions of his country's remote regions. At the same time, Gjorg, a young highlander, who has killed a man in revenge for his brother, is given a month's truce before he in turn will become a target. He can expect a bullet at any moment after April 17, hence his April is broken into safe and dangerous parts. His fate intersects with those of the literate travellers and the book comes to its inevitable ending. For a novel that explores seldom-seen territory, written in a terse, but beautiful style, please read this book. Since the end of communism in , the blood feud has returned to Albania, still often lawless in its mountain areas. This book is no fossil. Sep 10, Ataur Rahman rated it liked it. When reading this book I recalled "Blindness" of Saramago. Broken April is haunting, dark, disturbing and yet strangely attractive. The narration is so matter of fact yet the chill of death is looming in every word. It is the story of the relentless Kanun holding sway over the Albanian mountainsmen. The currency of the Kanun is death and so death seems as ever-present as money is in our society. There is always a sense of weirdness and unreality in the way the Mountainsmen deal with death, reveng When reading this book I recalled "Blindness" of Saramago. There is always a sense of weirdness and unreality in the way the Mountainsmen deal with death, revenge, honour, realtionships,obeisance. Yet there is the uncanny feeling that our so called modern society is perhaps no different in the way it kills and mechanises death. The only difference, perhaps, is the great democracy of death under Kanun in contrast to the modern ritual democracy coupled with hypocrisy of patriotism and other isms which send the young, meek, gullible, poor into the jaws of death View all 8 comments. Jul 14, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: balkans , albania. Just about the most depressing book I have ever read: powerful, bleak and timeless. It's sometime in post-Ottoman, pre-Hoxha Albania and a blood feud is playing itself out through the eyes of a young mountaineer, who is hopelessly caught in the game, while a couple of urban honeymooners are rubbernecking their way around the High Plateau. Then it gets a bit Passage to India as done by Kafka. And it's drizzling in the grey mountains, where the widow in black sits by the road above the vill Jings. And it's drizzling in the grey mountains, where the widow in black sits by the road above the village where all the men are hiding in towers. We haven't had time to do it in much depth but I at least have had a deeper plunge into it, and frankly, it's a towering thing. Truly great European literature with rich, layered images and subtle, devastating truths. Not all of Kadare is like this, and so far in my reading this is by far the best. I'm still blown away. This time I particularly found Mark Ukacierra to be interesting. View 2 comments. Jul 04, Sleepless Dreamer rated it liked it Shelves: reading-a-book-from-every-country. So like pretty much everyone else, I read this book as part of my reading around the world challenge for Albania. This wasn't my intended Albania book. I had hoped to find a book about Albanian religious history since I know Albania has a long and fascinating history involving religious freedom and tolerance. However, it seems this is the author all Albanians recommend so I succumbed to it. So Broken April has three main characters. First, we meet Gjorg. Gjorg has just murdered a man as part o So like pretty much everyone else, I read this book as part of my reading around the world challenge for Albania. Gjorg has just murdered a man as part of his family's blood feud. He now has a month to live while knowing after this month is over, he will be murdered by a relative of his victim. Next, we meet Bessian and Diana. They are a married couple traveling around the Albanian mountains. Bessian sees much beauty in the blood feud traditions while Diana is horrified. For a lack of better word, this book is strange. It's very literary, which I usually don't like. It's one of those books where there's isn't much of a plot and where we never get to see more than a skin deep view of the characters. I am still confused as to whether Bessian and Diana are Albanians or not so it might be a problem with my own reading or it just never gets entirely explained. It's also not clear when this book is set. Something about the entire thing feels more like a fantasy land than an actual depiction of a countryside. To be entirely honest, I didn't like this book but I don't have any good reason why. I suppose it felt like it didn't quite progress anywhere. It's hard to feel for any character. Bessian and Diana seem like strangers, there's no chemistry between them and I couldn't believe that they're married. Gjorg was promising but it was hard to care about him because we never really see him as a person. I don't feel like I know who he is, other than another participant in a blood feud. He doesn't even seem to be sad about his brother's death. And this is such a missed opportunity because a brief look at Kanun's Wikipedia page left me very intrigued. Blood feuds were still a thing in Albania in , although their communist leader tried to put an end to it in his time. This is wild. It is also a huge political question. If an entire society agrees to a specific set of laws, can a government actually force them to stop? At this point, it seems to be such a cultural heritage and obviously, way too many people have died for nothing but is it the government's job to make this stop? This book doesn't provide any kind of analysis, other than Bessian being somewhat of a psychopath. All in all, this just wasn't the book for me. Kadare was trying to create a specific mood here but I just wasn't feeling it. Maybe studying this book in a literature class would work better but I can't say I'm finishing this book with a strong urge to read more of his work. What I'm Taking With Me - Bessian is absolutely the type of guy who makes excuses for rapists, like "men are just built to rape, this is human nature". I am a delight to travel with, in case anyone was wondering. Work Adventures after 3 months of not working : - I was an awkward mess for the first 20 minutes because I literally forgot how to socialize, I'm just here like, how do people even speak? Dec 10, Tara Newton rated it it was amazing. A visceral breakdown of emotions. A darkness of souls. A terrific relationship between the eye and the world. Beautiful climax. A film. View 1 comment. However, I thought a particular plot device, an ancient book of laws and social mores which is the source of the problems that the main character, Gjorg Berisha, endures, was a fictional invention of the author. Ffs, what real-life culture would codify into their common law rules about ritual assassinations, a cascading continuation of murder after murder of selected individuals to be passed down from generation to generation? No society would make up such an idiotic Code! No, never happened! Uh, wait The mind-boggling discoveries I made after googling some of the elements in this translated story, written in , are that ritual blood feuds actually happened in Albania's past and are STILL happening today in the rural areas and mountains of Albania. Plus, an ancient book of laws and mores, a book called the Kanun which describes how when and where these murders should occur, along with required ritual chanting which must be performed while murdering, is actually a real book STILL followed religiously by some rural villages in Albania! The descriptions of what this ancient book contains remind me of parts of the Qu'ran, Bible and Torah, only WAY more bizarre since the laws in this book demand people follow additional social rules of ritual murder that seem insane to me. Any kind of death, whether accidental or intentional, begins an endless spiral of ritualized murder which must be performed within a year to restore the dead person's family's or village's honor. The dead person who is being avenged does not even have to be known to anyone in the village where the person died. The person who died could be a total stranger who was a temporary guest of a villager, like a thirsty traveler stopping to ask for a drink of water, who then was attacked by an unknown robber after leaving the village. The villager, not the unknown robber, becomes responsible for satisfying the Code of Blood Feud as stated in the Kanun. Unbelievably, there is a traditional legal system set up in the participating villages of Albania to adjudicate the Code. Certain Albanian elders are judged to be sufficiently learned in interpreting the laws of the Kanun. These gentlemen are sent for whenever there is a question who should be killed in response to a death, and who should be the 'justicer', as the murderer is officially named. It does not matter if the honor murder is performed on an innocent man or a guilty one as long as the selected individual satisfies the Kanun laws and rituals. The murder must be undertaken only in certain areas of a home or a town, in certain times of the day, within a year. A person selected to be murdered can travel safely while on certain designated roads and paths, but as soon as that person leaves the 'safe' road or path, then that person can be murdered. There are also designated 'safe houses', which actually are towers made of stone built here and there across the landscape in Albania. These towers are full of ex-justicers who are now vulnerable to revenge in the chain of murders in these blood feuds. These men can never leave the tower without fearing a bullet to the head. The Code requires that a murdered man's death must be avenged, and then that person's murder must be avenged, and then that murder must be avenged, and then that murder must be avenged, etc. Literally forever. I am not joking or exaggerating. In addition, if the murder is bungled, and only wounds are sustained by the selected person to have been murdered, then the justicer has to pay the victim a fine for each wound. Or they could count the wound as part settlement of the blood that was owed. In that case, the justicer can inflict wounds until the blood account was fully paid. Else, the clock is still ticking when the murder must occur by the justicer on the victim, and a fine is still owed the victim for each wound. Once the justicer accomplishes his blood-feud revenge murder, then he must pay a death tax to the local authorities the authority who is in charge of collecting the blood tax is called 'The Steward of the Blood'. The justicer can be granted the short bessa - a hour truce by the murdered man's family, or the murdered man's family can agree to giving the justicer a month-long truce - the long bessa. At the end of the bessa , the justicer can be killed by another appointed justicer in revenge, unless he goes to live in a tower of refuge, unable to ever leave the tower for the rest of his life. Traditional law is a bitch, gentle reader. Another character in the novel, Bessian Vorpsi, is a journalist. He is on his honeymoon with his beautiful wife, Diana, traveling to the high plateaus of the Albanian mountains. They both are modern urbanites, but Bessian has always wanted to see the Code at work. He thinks the Kanun is a romantic relic of Albanian history, majestic and legendary. But as their journey proceeds, he is puzzled more and more by Diana's behavior. As they pass men wearing black ribbons, the sign of the wearer being part of a blood feud and thus a walking dead man, Diana becomes withdrawn. Was it a mistake to have a honeymoon in the mountains? She did not know much about the Code, but as he explains it to her as they travel, she gets quieter and quieter. What is wrong? Does she not see it is the glorious choice of Shakespeare's Hamlet made large? Author Ismail Kadare is probably unknown to most of us, gentle reader. But he is famous in Europe, especially in France and Albania. In he won the Man Booker International Prize. He also has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Albania and went to University in Tirana, Albania. Because of governmental disapproval of his books and other writings, he asked for and was granted asylum in in France. At first, I believed I was reading only a historical fiction novel about the culture of Albania that existed long ago in the past, and later, as I progressed deeper into the story of 'Broken April', I thought maybe it was also a symbolic folktale of Albania because of the novel's literary architecture. The story is not only those things. Instead, I learned that Kadare's story about the early 20th-century Albanian mountain and village people of the past is a real-life culture of people who still live outside of the legal governmental framework of Albania as if they were in the midst of the Middle Ages and not part of the 21st century. I read that 'Broken April' takes place between the World Wars, but it is difficult for me to believe that. The people of the Albanian plateaus live like people of the 13th century, in my opinion. The protagonists travel by horse and carriage, horseback and of course, on foot. However, on page 35, Gjorg Berisha, one of the main characters, sees an airplane in the sky flying overhead, and knows what it is. I am still in shock by this story. View all 4 comments. Gjorg has a grace period or truce: bessa of thirty days before he becomes fair game for the bullet of his victim's family. Should a member of the victim's family kill Gjorg, this will restore their honor. The concept of honor and honorable behaviour p The sense of place is created not so much through physical description of landscape or buildings but through the culture of the High Plateau and in particular the power of The Kanun which dictates the rituals surrounding the killing and its aftermath. This controls behaviour and clothing at the funeral. Is it a rule, law, code or custom? Is there a difference? Gjorg, the protagonist is 26 years old and presented to us in third person narrative. The omniscient narrator provides insights into his thoughts and feelings. The novel begins with Gjorg, the protagonist, waiting in ambush to take revenge on Zef Kryeqyqe. His killing of the victim is surrounded by ritual dictated by the Kanun — the code of customary law in the High Plateau of Albania. The narrative is then driven by the rituals accompanying the aftermath of the killing, including the call for a bessa or truce in the feud between the family of Gjorg and the family of Zef. The funeral takes place next day and Gjorg has to take part in the procession. Broken April (Paperback) - -

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Does she not see it is the glorious choice of Shakespeare's Hamlet made large? Author Ismail Kadare is probably unknown to most of us, gentle reader. But he is famous in Europe, especially in France and Albania. In he won the Man Booker International Prize. He also has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Albania and went to University in Tirana, Albania. Because of governmental disapproval of his books and other writings, he asked for and was granted asylum in in France. At first, I believed I was reading only a historical fiction novel about the culture of Albania that existed long ago in the past, and later, as I progressed deeper into the story of 'Broken April', I thought maybe it was also a symbolic folktale of Albania because of the novel's literary architecture. The story is not only those things. Instead, I learned that Kadare's story about the early 20th-century Albanian mountain and village people of the past is a real-life culture of people who still live outside of the legal governmental framework of Albania as if they were in the midst of the Middle Ages and not part of the 21st century. I read that 'Broken April' takes place between the World Wars, but it is difficult for me to believe that. The people of the Albanian plateaus live like people of the 13th century, in my opinion. The protagonists travel by horse and carriage, horseback and of course, on foot. However, on page 35, Gjorg Berisha, one of the main characters, sees an airplane in the sky flying overhead, and knows what it is. I am still in shock by this story. View all 4 comments. Gjorg has a grace period or truce: bessa of thirty days before he becomes fair game for the bullet of his victim's family. Should a member of the victim's family kill Gjorg, this will restore their honor. Gjorg's story was the most fascinating--the murder, what he does in his time of reprieve, and his final shocking though inevitable fate. I felt Bessian was only a mouthpiece to explain the Kanun , the rigid set of laws governing every aspect of life and death of the mountain folk. Diana represented an outsider's view of the culture and Mark represented officialdom upholding the Kanun. This was a glimpse into a violent, brutal culture. Remote Albania still lives under its tenets in the present. The simple, unvarnished style made it readable in a short time for me. This dark short novel is a good introduction to Kadare. I did reread the novel and it was just as good the second time. Oct 06, Xandra rated it really liked it Shelves: books , , european , by-men , three-and-a-half-stars , thriller-mystery-crime-horror , balkans. Anyway, the story begins with a man lying behind a ridge, freezing his butt off, a rifle in his hands, waiting for some guy to show up so he can put a bullet in his head. He finishes the job, goes home, and it soon becomes clear that his family is involved in a blood feud with very strict rules, a practice that appears to be common in the Northern part of Albania where he lives. At this point, I genuinely thought I was reading dystopian fiction, but listen to this: the Kanun is an actual, published set of laws whose influence, although much diminished, still leads to killings in modern- day Albania. The organization was, however, accused of corruption and the statistics they claim are most likely exaggerated. Blood feuds still exist, but local prosecutors offer lower numbers that are seemingly more accurate. This is a beautifully written, bleak and haunting novel, set between the wars in the mountains of northern Albania. It is very short and I read it in a day. The story centres on a family caught up in the blood feuds of this region, which sadly still exist, according to recent newspaper reports. The book centres on a complicated etiquette of death included in the Kanun, a set of traditional laws. After one man kills to avenge an insult, a duty of revenge continues until all the men of a household This is a beautifully written, bleak and haunting novel, set between the wars in the mountains of northern Albania. After one man kills to avenge an insult, a duty of revenge continues until all the men of a household are either dead or sheltering in towers of sanctuary, unable to go out during daylight. Gjorg, the central character, is put under pressure by his family to kill the man who killed his brother - but, after carrying out the killing, he knows his own life is likely to be forfeit. He has just 30 days to live during a stay of execution also laid down in the laws , before the family of his victim will in turn come after him. Can he escape, or is he in effect a dead man walking? As Gjorg struggles to come to terms with his probable fate, the book also features a honeymooning couple who come to visit the area, travelling in a dark carriage. The bridegroom, a writer, is fascinated by the blood feud culture, and sees it as material for future work, but his bride is understandably horrified. Through these characters, I get the impression that the author is wrestling with his own reasons for writing about the blood feuds and expressing some of his conflicting feelings. Lastly, I'm sorry not to know who the translator was the title page just says that it was translated from the Albanian, presumably in-house by the publisher , because the prose style is great. Jul 27, Felix rated it it was amazing Shelves: touching , favourite-authors , highly-recommended , sad , realistic-fiction. The Albanian highlands are a gloomy place where hard-nosed and hard-scrabble peasants eke out a precarious living farming corn. Even the mountain fairies in their tales seem to be hard-nosed and hard-scrabble. What glamour there is in the peasants' lives derives from their participation in self-perpetuating blood-feuds, regulated like everything else by the ancient set of oral laws known as the Kanun. What sort of person goes there on his honeymoon? A fool, if you ask me. A somewhat romantic fo The Albanian highlands are a gloomy place where hard- nosed and hard-scrabble peasants eke out a precarious living farming corn. A somewhat romantic fool, perhaps - I will grant you that - but a fool nevertheless. Bessian is a fashionable writer from Tirana, the capital of Albania. He has made his name by works in which he waxed lyrical about the highlands, the peasants, and the Kanun. But he has never actually been there. So he takes his young, beautiful, and impressionable wife Diana to the highlands on their honeymoon-cum-research-trip. Predictably, nothing good comes out of it. At a late point in the novel, Bessian somewhat casually drops the name of Marx. It is not clear whether he has actually read or understood him, but in my opinion, he would have done far better by himself to attend carefully to Nietzsche's famous dictum "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you". Aug 11, aayushi girdhar rated it really liked it Shelves: albania. In the country where the most common inheritance among generations is the passing on of a blood-feud, the only way to describe kadare's Albania is "we are entering the shadow land. Mar 16, Adam rated it it was amazing. The version I read was in English. It was a translation of the French translation of the original Albanian. I feel that the story has not suffered because of this double translation. This haunting tale, which revolves around the Law of Lek, the codification of feuding in traditional Albania, is brief but brilliant. As in his other works, Ismail Kadare captures a great deal with a few words. Read this and anything else by this author. Nov 02, Bikki rated it did not like it. I realize that I should like this book - lots of people like this book. I read the ending twice and it just didn't happen. I didn't like the ending, although I can grasp the "poeticness" yes, I just made up that word of it. I struggled with the story, with a story line that was intriguing, but bloody. It was just a painful read all the way around and I pushed myself to get through this relatively short book. I wouldn't recommend it and maybe after we discuss it at book club I will appreciate i I realize that I should like this book - lots of people like this book. I wouldn't recommend it and maybe after we discuss it at book club I will appreciate it more, but right now it just isn't happening for me. Feb 01, Kirsty rated it really liked it Shelves: around-the-world-inbooks , february I've wanted to read his work for quite a while, and am pleased to report that I was entirely swept away with this novel, so much so that the extended review which I was planning to write went out of the window rather early on. The translation here is smooth and accessible, and the writing is often quite beautiful in an understated way. Broken April is filled with fascinating and archaic Albanian customs, and is well worth picking up. Dec 30, Nick rated it liked it. In "Broken April", Ismael Kadare, Albania's best- known writer, focuses on the blood feud traditions of his country's uplands. The Albanian blood feud is far beyond the angry impulse that compels even the studious Hamlet to revenge his father; instead, its rituals are laid down in the law that governs this part of Albania. The intent of the law is to regulate the blood feud, to channel it in a way that keeps it from raging out of control, but the practical effect is to create a landscape of night In "Broken April", Ismael Kadare, Albania's best-known writer, focuses on the blood feud traditions of his country's uplands. The intent of the law is to regulate the blood feud, to channel it in a way that keeps it from raging out of control, but the practical effect is to create a landscape of nightmare. Dead men's shirts are hung from their houses to remind living relatives that they are waiting for vengeance. The first act of the killers is to request temporary truces from the families of their victims. The revengers pay a tax for their murder. People who have committed revenge killings hide out together in towers dedicated to that purpose. A stranger murdered on a family's property draws its members into a fate of endless blood revenge until its men are all dead. This all sounds like the middle ages gone mad, but the novel set in the thirties. Kadare starts the novel with a man who almost against his will continues the blood feud by committing a revenge murder that he knows will require the victim's family to kill him. Then Kadare shifts to a young married couple on honeymoon--the husband has a romantic view of these customs as folklore. The naive anthropologist as resident fool can be found elsewhere in Kadare's work, but the wife who plays a pivotal and not fully explained role, all without really coming to life except to ask questions of her husband and wander mysteriously. The novel is strongest when it stays with the doomed mountaineers; by inserting the young couple whose idea of a honeymoon is to travel uncomfortably in a carriage through this nightmare, Kadare strains credibility, dissipates tension, explain without explaining, and deprives what should be a tragedy of the power it needs to become one. Feb 15, Sara rated it it was amazing. I absolutely loved this book-- a well-written bittersweet love story that is set in Albania. The novel really explores the lifestyle of those who lived on the high plateaus of the country in the early 20th century and their code of ethics, namely the never-ending blood feuds that allow a death for a death, with family constantly having to sacrifice one of their own. I'm not working down the list regionally or alphabetically. I'm not oversaturating my reading list all at once with these titles. I'm just making a conscious effort to explore the world through books as I'm able. Broken April is perhaps the most eye-opening view of a world I knew nothing about. Set in mountains of Albania, Broken April is the story of a man bound to an extremely strict set of rules called the Kanun. It makes the American west of the s seem very tame, the Levitical law lenient. Once one has become ensnared by the rules of the Kanun, there is no escape. Initially, I imagined that these rules were a product of the author's imagination. If nothing else, they had to have been exaggerated. No group of people would willingly live under such rigorous regulations century upon century. Sadly, they're all true. Though I hate to knock on the beliefs and cultures of another group, these rules are ridiculous and very dangerous. It's a wonder that those who subscribe to the Kanun as a rule for life have not gone extinct by now. As far as a novel goes, Broken April is a bit uneven. When the story focuses on Gjorg, it is riveting and breathtaking. I felt his anxiety. He is a marked man and though the reader must know it's impossible for him to escape, you hope there is a way. Also, I was enraptured with Diana, a newlywed who does not live under the Kanun, but who is similarly held captive by the authority of her husband. But the novel spends far too much time on the boring, ridiculous Bessian and on characters such as Mark, who merely provided a different visual perspective. Without these interruptions, I likely would've made my way through this novel in very little time; unfortunately, I felt too much of what Diana must've felt: God, I wish Bessian would just shut up. There is a haunting atmosphere to Broken April , especially as we follow Gjorg around. It reminds me of John Steinbeck's time in Mexico. It is this timelessness, this sense that these rules will continue until everyone is finally dead, that give this novel its most grievous quality. Oct 13, Pamela rated it it was amazing Shelves: boxallread. Haunting and powerful novel set in the remote mountains of Albania. Gjorg has killed the murderer of his brother, in accordance with the Kanun an ancient and complex code that governs the lives of the mountain people. He is subject to a truce of thirty days, and then can be killed in his turn. This is how the blood feud continues between the families involved. Bessian, a writer, and his wife Diana are visiting the area on honeymoon. They briefly encounter Gjorg, and the impact of this passing m Haunting and powerful novel set in the remote mountains of Albania. They briefly encounter Gjorg, and the impact of this passing moment affects all three in unexpected ways. This novel explores the conflicting views of the protagonists about the blood feud. Bessian has a romanticised view of it as an honourable and noble thing, while for Gjorg it is just something he has accepted as an inevitable part of his life. Both of them find their view challenged by later events, and by the ambiguous presence of Diana. The book is beautifully written, and is one I feel I could read again and again. Dec 13, Patrik Hallberg rated it it was amazing. I found this book because of a recommendation by my good friend Jessica Sebag-Montefiore. It's such a gem even if the topic is very unsettling. Kadare writes about the Albanian feudal set of laws, Kanun, it's hard to understand that this exists in a modern world. When one person is killed the family members are bound to revenge the murder by taking the life of the killer and this can go on for generations and generations. He is given 30 days before he is open prey. Bessian and Diana are on their Honeymoon and their path crosses Gjorgu and it will change their lives forever. I couldn't put the book down and read it almost straight through during my flight from Dallas to Chennai. The story is beautiful at the same time as it's deeply unsettling. Feb 27, Farhan Khalid rated it it was amazing Shelves: european , novel. Half a March and half an April, like two broken branches glittering with frost What would he do in the thirty days left to him? Eternal time, that was no longer his, without days, without seasons, without years, without a future, abstract time. The mountains were receding ever more slowly, sinking back into solitude If it wasn't so horrific the manner in which the story is written and the ritualism of it is almost hypnotically beautiful probably the wrong expression. The plot centres around Gjorg who at the begining is about to kill a member of another family in retribution for the murder of his brother in a chain that has gone back generations. After the killing according to tradition he is given 30 days amnesty before the bereaved family can kill him. He wanders around the vast plteau of the Albanian countryside after he has visited the manor to pay the Prince the blood money fee. At the same time a writer from the capital Tirana and his beautiful fiancee are travelling the plateau in a carriage visiting inns and the countryside but the writer Bessian is obsessed with Kanun and its rituals in an anthropological manner to the point that it is creating an issue in the days old marriage. Bessian , his wife and Gjorj have a very fleeting encounter but the wife Diana becomes obsessed with Gjorj and his fate as does Gjorj with this chance sight of beauty. I won't say more but I found the writing compelling, it was gothic in its feel having a sense of the mists and doom of say a 19th cetury gothic horror, yet poetically describes the beauty of the rituals and the countryside. The feeling that the reader is immersed in the journey of Gjorj is also countered with a feeling of observing something from a distance with a sense of an inevitable ending. I am still amazed by the tradition itself and the book was interesting purely on the basis of a picture of such a strange culture. Suffice to say this was an excellent read and makes me want to read more by Kadare. This is not a book intended to make the reader comfortable. The funeral took place the next day around noon. Gjorg, too, walked in the procvession. At first he had refused to take part in the ceremony, but at last he had given in to his father's urging. Why must I go? A murder This is not a book intended to make the reader comfortable. A murderer must, by custom, attend the funeral, walk in the procession, and share in the funeral dinner at the house of the man he killed! This gloomy novel is set in the early years of the 20th century. Focusing on Gjorg, caught in the relentless cycle of retaliatory killing, and newlyweds Bessian and Diana, who are exploring the Albanian High Plateau on their honeymoon, it reveals and 'explains' the blood feud system entrenched in the lives of the people. The dreadful waste of human life, and the 'feudal lord's' economic reliance on its continuance, is told so sadly. At least, however, there were clearly delineated rules. Nowadays, it appears, the blood feud is still very much a way of life see this June article , but the practice has degenerated. What is happening is not related to the Albanian Kanun and is very barbarian: it is done with kallashnikov. Oct 27, Brenda C Kayne rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction. An amazing work of fiction that explains a dismal, distressing, oppressive, and highly ritualized code of revenge in an obscure area of Albania. Much to my dismay, this code of revenge is fact. I googled it. Perhaps this is Kadare's point. The book, hands down, is my favorite "dark" book because it so explictly depicts the karmic absurdity of revenge. One wonders if revenge is actually a natural response or perhaps a form of defensive behavior gone wrong. At any rate, our desires for revenge de An amazing work of fiction that explains a dismal, distressing, oppressive, and highly ritualized code of revenge in an obscure area of Albania. At any rate, our desires for revenge deserve analysis after any horrible act so that at least there might be conversation on how they might be satisfied in some productive, creative way. I am not one who supports the concept of "proportionate response". And although turning the other cheek seems equally absurd, I think there is more to it than that. It seems a code is born when there is no turning back, no analysis or perhaps an analysis that is given up on ; there is only perpetual repetition of deed. Maybe over the course of time when enough change surrounding a code of revenge occurs, the code dissipates such as with the Hatfields and McCoys. This books shares a lot with Lorca's play, "Blood Wedding". What I find interesting in both book and play, is how much the code is perpetuated by the women, who in the traditional stance of motherhood and nurturance, maintain and encourage a code of revenge within their troubled communities. A story of a young man who lives in the high plateau of Albania under the rule of Kanun. This was a very interesting tale of a culture and a mores that operated under an economy of blood. The prose is very good and the story compelling. The first part starts out with Gjorg and his fulfilling the Kunan as intrusted by his father to avenge his brother's death, then he has to pay the blood tax and he has 30 days before he can be killed by the avenging family of the man he has killed. The next secti A story of a young man who lives in the high plateau of Albania under the rule of Kanun. The next section involves a husband and wife on a honeymoon trip to the high plateau where the husband tells his wife all about the Kunan. She becomes more and more withdrawn. The next section involves the steward of the blood. I found it very interesting that this rule allowed the fields to be fallow while the hunted men hide. It also explains the economy of the blood compared to the taxes on crops. Then it switches back to the husband and wife and finally back to Gjorg who has stayed gone too long and the 30 day truce has expired at noon. Jul 24, George P. Broken April is a remarkable novel by what some call the greatest Albanian writer. I know you're thinking that's probably a pretty low bar, but still I enjoyed his writing style a very great deal- it's a spare unpretentious style that suits me well- I much prefer a writer who can say a great deal with a minimum of words. It's a dark story but also a short one, so it shouldn't get you down too much. Just three main characters, two of which are a married couple who briefly meet the 3rd character, Broken April is a remarkable novel by what some call the greatest Albanian writer. Just three main characters, two of which are a married couple who briefly meet the 3rd character, a young "mountaineer" man from the highlands of Albania whose life is at a crisis point. All my friends who've read this rated it 4 or 5 stars. It has about ratings on Goodreads, and deserves to have about 10x that many. Nov 06, Meg rated it really liked it Shelves: literary , translation , theme-revenge , 20th-century , genre-historical-fiction , attr-atmospheric , setting-small-town , literature-of-eastern-europe , language-albanian , theme-death-mortality. I do have a vivid recollection of reading a few chapters of it in the botanical garden, under the most lovely tree which an art student -- who'd also noticed the tree's loveliness-- was sketching. Not long before that day, I'd gotten sucked into a particularly deep "In no other country in the world can one see people on the road who bear the mark of death, like trees marked for felling. Not long before that day, I'd gotten sucked into a particularly deep wikipedia rabbit hole on feuds. The section on Albania's unique and still-kicking tradition of blood feuds reminded me that I fortuitously already had a book on my to-be-read shelf that dealt with the theme. As a bonus, it was by an author from a country whose literature I was as of yet unacquainted with. The novel opens from the point of view of year-old mountaineer Gjorg, already deeply entangled in his family's blood feud. After killing the man he was after, he has a month of relative peace to live until the truce expires and its open season once again. He realizes life as he knows it is over, and he'll either be killed or have to stay hidden and afraid for the rest of his existence. There's an inevitability to it all, a lack of choice. The feeling that he must do what he must do, regardless of what he wants or thinks personally. The blood feud is no longer about hot-blooded rage or vengeance-- it's passionless, preordained, a sequence of events that must be completed as part of a larger ritual or cycle. There's even a blood tax to pay. I felt more spellbound when we inhabited Gjorg's world and perspective. The introduction of Bessian and Diana, newlyweds from the capital, jarred me a little. Bessian is a court writer who's fascinated by the mountaineers' way of life and adherence to the Kanun traditional Albanian law that also encompasses the rules of the blood feud and is inclined to think romantically and wax poetically about it all. To him, as to the readers, the mountaineers are an almost mythic people, inhabiting their stone kullas in a desolate landscape, bound unquestionably to the arcane strictures of the Kanun. Brushed as the couple is with the advance of 20th century modernity, this remote part of the country, still steeped in ancient ritual, is as foreign to them as it is to us. The Kanun is unforgiving and cruel. It proclaims that a wedding must go on, even if if the bride is dying, and a "trousseau bullet" is to be given to the groom so he can kill his wife if she ever leaves him. It upholds the sacredness of hospitality, to the extreme extent that you are bound to avenge a guest, so that there's a risk of getting caught up in an intergenerational blood feud every time you give a stranger a place to sleep. The harshness of this code, bewildering in a modern context but not so different from any ancient or medieval system, makes you wonder what it is about humans that has allowed and continues to allow us to collectively agree on and support laws that could backfire so spectacularly on any individual; to construct and then follow rules that constrain to the point of suffocation. Perhaps an aversion to disorder and lack of structure so deep that signing away certain freedoms becomes desirable, if only there is a rulebook to follow and hang onto through chaos and uncertainty? The belief it will most likely never be applied to you, while the group benefits as a whole from its formulation? I'm not sure Kadare has helped me understand it, but this book, pleasantly unusual and atmospheric, did raise the question in my mind. Jun 12, Najia Syed rated it it was amazing. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short. Not only because it was painful but also because I found it hard to understand and to connect with. In my quest to look for diversity, I love to learn and enjoy new things, and I have always found a way to connect with them. Because no matter how different we are from each other there is always basic humanity underneath us all that is the same. But I failed to achieve that in this book solely because I can never connect with murdering a human or find any kind of humanity in a culture that has a whole set of law and regulations Kanun which encourages blood feuds and you can actually be excommunicated or killed if you do not take revenge. As the story progresses you start realising what it going on. They live in fortresses and collect money in the names of people dying, only because they are the so called gate-keeper of the Kanun. Fall in the revenge rate is a thing of worry for them and they will find ways to fuel the fire, to reignite the hatred. Finding a woman on the roads whose eyes kindled something deeply moving inside him, while on his way back after paying the blood tax, was the most unexpected thing that could have happened to him. Love strikes at the oddest places, and Diana, who is travelling to High Plateau with her husband on their honeymoon, feels the same pull towards Gjorg as he has felt towards her. She said the name to herself and she felt that an emptiness was spreading inside her chest. Something was coming apart painfully there, but there was a certain sweetness in it. At the same slow pace as the story moves, this gothic imagery seems to drain life out of the world. I am in love with Kadare, and grateful for him for writing something through which he draws the dark and mysterious face of his countrymen, without mincing his words. Readers also enjoyed. Literary Fiction. About Ismail Kadare. Ismail Kadare. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the s. He focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. He has divided his time between Albania and France since Kadare has been mentioned as a possible recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His works have been published in about 30 languages. His education included studies at the University of Tirana and then the Gorky Institute for World Literature in Moscow, a training school for writers and critics. In Kadare returned to Albania after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union, and he became a journalist and published his first poems. His first novel, The General of the Dead Army , sprang from a short story, and its success established his name in Albania and enabled Kadare to become a full-time writer. Kadare's novels draw on Balkan history and legends. The next day, they head to Orosh, the same town Gjorg travelled to. The newlyweds encounter Gjorg on the road, looking pale and unwell. He offers them directions to Orosh. As he does, he exchanges a long glance with Diana, and the two feel an intense connection. The two parties go their separate ways, and the moment is lost. Diana and Bessian reach Orosh. When Bessian tries to initiate intimacy, Diana brushes him aside. The night terrifies her, and she worries about Gjorg. He settles on wandering the mountainside. He visits inns and villages, eventually hearing rumors of an exquisite carriage transporting a beautiful woman. Gjorg realizes with his remaining time he will seek out Diana and witness her serenity again. Diana and Bessian continue their honeymoon, exploring the High Plateau. Diana slips away and sneaks into a tower of refuge, a place where men who have killed isolate themselves to avoid being killed themselves. She hopes Gjorg might be there. Bessian realizes Diana is missing and panics. The divide in their marriage widens. He considers hiding, waiting till nightfall so he can travel safely. He comes across a man who mentions seeing an exquisite carriage and a beautiful woman. Before he can, a bullet strikes Gjorg and he hits the ground, feeling death approaching. Broken April Ismail Kadare. Save Download.

Broken April by Ismail Kadare

Scanning the archives, Mark feels disgust toward any periodicals and writings critical of the Kanun. He wishes the writings would be banned and burned, but the ruler of the castle—referred to as the prince—is more lenient than Mark. Making matters worse, the prince has threatened to replace Mark with someone with a university education. Broken April Ismail Kadare. Save Download. Enjoy this free preview Unlock all 44 pages of this Study Guide by subscribing today. Get started. It's always fun to read Ismail Kadare books. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview Two destinies intersect in Broken April. The first is that of Gjor, a young mountaineer who much against his will has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the provisions of the Code that regulates life in the highlands. The second is that of a young couple on their honeymoon who have come to study the age-old customs of the place, including the blood feud. While the story is set in the early twentieth century, life on the high plateaus of Albania takes life back to the Dark Ages. For the young bride, the shock of this unending cycle of obligatory murder is devastating. The horror becomes personified when she catches a glimpse of Gjor as he wanders about the countryside, waiting for the truce of thirty days to end, and life with it. That momentary vision of the hapless murderer provokes in her a violent act of revulsion and contrition. Her life will be marked by it always. Product Details About the Author. He has lived in France since , following his decision to seek asylum. From , under the Communist regime, Mr. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries. In addition to Broken April, Ivan R. Kadare is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize Related Searches.

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