Written with masterly simplicity in a bardic style....With Broken April, Mr. Kadare comes to the forefront as a major international novelist. * The New York Times * Powerful, old-fashioned fiction almost Dostoevskian in its dark vision. * Kirkus * One of contemporary fictions greatest prose lyricists. * The Philadelphia Inquirer * In Broken April, Kadare achieves a precise and delicate balance of wonder and horror, simplicity and irony....[ Kadare] is an accomplished storyteller with a keen sense of literary history. * The Christian Science Monitor * Kadare's voice is a voice unlike any other in contemporary fiction. The Nobel can't come a moment too soon. * Kirkus * A major international novelist. -- Herbert Mitgang * The New York Times * One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language. * The Wall Street Journal * Ismail Kadare is a writer who maps a whole cultureits history, its passion, its folklore, its politics, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer. -- Professor John Carey, Committee Chair, Man Booker International Prize 2005 Ismail Kadare's fiction has been compared with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Certainly he induces that same ironic double-take in his readers, by means of the child's magical view of life that is larger than most adults realize -- Leonie Caldecott * The New York Times * Writing like this is hard to stop quoting, it is musical not only in rhythms, but in its most elemental perceptions. * Nation * Albania's most valuable literary export: the novels of Ismail Kadare. -- Ken Kalfus * Village Voice Literary Supplement * Albania's Kadare is probably the premier writer of fiction to have emerged from the Balkan countries since Bosnian Nobel-winning novelist Ivo Andric. * Kirkus * A great writer. * Booklist * Kadare's prose glimmers with the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. * Los Angeles Times *
