The Siege by Ismail Kadare

The Siege

Ismail Kadare with David Bellos

328 pages first pub 1970 (view editions)

fiction historical reflective slow-paced
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One summer in the early 1450s, an Ottoman army invades Albania and lays siege to a castle loyal to the charismatic Albanian rebel Skanderbeg. The besieging army vastly outnumbers the beleaguered garrison, and is led by the experienced commander Tu...

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