BROKEN APRIL – Romance by Ismail Kadare

He is a writer, essayist, poet and writer born in a southern city of Albania, who graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana. At first he devoted himself to poetry, but in 1963 he wrote his first novel. In 1990 to express their disapproval of the immobility of the Albanian Communist leadership, he requested and was granted political asylum in France. Since 1996, he is an associate member of the Académie des sciences morales life et politiques. Ismail Kadare has been nominated several times for the final selection for the Nobel Prize, and is an honorary member of the French Academy.

Reading Broken April, you will have to imagine living before the advent of communism in Albania, 17 March than a year sometime, Gjorg had to kill his brother’s murderess to obey the besa (an ancient code and merciless fixing, with no possibility derogation, so time and price of any crime). After the murder, Gjorg will have a truce month. Then, death will be lurking around every street corner. But its history is interwoven with that of Besian and Diana, a writer and his young, beautiful wife, who departed from Tirana to undertake a unique honeymoon in the mountains. The meeting between Gjorg and the two spouses will have crucial consequences: will play the love of Diana to her husband and, at the end of the fateful truce will induce Gjorg predator and prey of the woman, her face enchanted – a fatal imprudence: in a “broken in April” that he will break his life

https://www.amazon.it/Broken-April-Ismail-Kadare/dp/1561310654