The Ghost Rider

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An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?

Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known poet and novelist, and translations of his novels have appeared in more than?40 countries. In 2005 he was awarded the?inaugural Man Booker International Prize for "a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact," and he has?been a Nobel Prize in Literature candidate several times. His books include Broken April, Chronicle in Stone,?The Siege, and?The Successor, which was listed as a New York Times Notable Book. David Bellos, the director of the program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec’s Life A User’s Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Translator's Prize?awarded as part of?the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.